Crimea: another Russian ammunition depot blows up, damaging the railway system. Still bad luck?

An ammunition depot in Russia-annexed Crimea exploded on Tuesday, injuring two people and disrupting rail traffic between the peninsula and the rest of southern Ukraine and Russia, the region's top Russian-backed official said. Footage broadcast on Russian state TV showed a burning electrical substation near the Crimean city of Dzhankoi and a series of repeated large explosions on the horizon which, according to authorities, were caused by the detonation of ammunition at a military base. That's where it is

Sergei Aksyonov, the top Russian official in Crimea, told state TV that he did not want to talk about what may have caused the explosions, but said he was investigating. People living in the nearby village have been evacuated. The damage is serious because it reduces or closes one of the main supply routes for Russian troops in southern Ukraine, just at the moment when the clashes are getting more heated around Kherson.

Now we will see, as in the case of the explosions in the Russian air base, the ballet of interpretations between Russians and Ukrainians:

• the Ukrainians will say nothing or almost nothing, or will give credit to the resistance or to the special forces, to avoid revealing their weapons;
• the Russians will blame bad luck, that is, the mismanagement of ammunition, for which everything was just a coincidence.

All to hide a couple of probable truths:

• the USA supplied the medium-range tactical missiles launched by the HIMARS and MLRS-270 launchers, ie the ATACMS, with a range from 165 to 300 km, with a single warhead and GPS precision guidance;
• S400 anti-aircraft systems are great for marketing, but they don't intercept US missiles. Everything else is zero.

The alternative explanations, especially those of an intervention by special forces or resisters, may be valid, but even less reassuring: it would mean that the areas controlled by the Russians are a sieve, or that the population does not support the Russians. Then there is always the bad luck option, but this does not make the Russian command a better figure …

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