Explosion on 51 arsenal of Grau: in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explained what happened "in fact" (map)

The reaction of the Russian defense department to the incident in the Kirzhach appeared an hour after the first posts on social networks about explosions. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation acknowledged that there was a extraordinary event in the local military unit. The Office assured that the cause of the explosions is a violation of safety rules, which was probably allowed by staff while working with explosive materials. It is also emphasized that the staff was not injured.

In addition, the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Andriy Bilousov said that the investigative commission, which is finding the perpetrators of explosions at 51 composition of the Grau, and they will be brought to departure. About 6 pm, a statement of the governor of Volodymyr region Alexander Avdeev appeared. The Russian official stated that in the Kirzhak district the population was evacuated due to the danger of explosions and detonation in ammunition depots.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces has not yet commented on the incident at the Russian arsenal. It should be noted that at about 16 hours on April 22 a series of messages from the settlement of Kirzhach and from other surrounding cities and villages of Vladimir region appeared on the network. The Russians reported that they heard loud explosions from the military unit, which housed 51 composition of the GRU of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The composition is located 500 km from Ukraine and to reach it, should either move directly through the Moscow region, or bypass the capital region from the south or north, Google Maps testifies. Meanwhile, the local public showed "mushroom" from smoke and fire, which risen into the sky near the village of Barsovo, located southwest of the town of Kirzhach. The Russians shared their impressions of the loud explosions, and some first published and then removed compromising personnel.

In the Pablik "Eye Gora" reported that 51 composition of the game stored more than 260 thousand tons of ammunition. Among them are artsnighters, PTRC missiles, anti-aircraft missiles for SPRC C-200V and OCA SPR, RSSU missiles, and fugas airbags. It should be noted that the focus wrote about preliminary lesions of the Game Warehouses. On September 18, 2024, the 23 and 107 Arsenals of the Grau in Tropka of the Tver region exploded.

On September 21, it was loud in the warehouses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Tikhorsky in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation. The Defense Express portal analyzed the locations of the AFU Games of the Russian Federation on the European part of the Russian Federation to understand what weapons are stored on them, what distance to them and whether they will be able to reach the Armed Forces.