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Watch: Ukrainian Troops Destroy Russian Thermobaric Munitions Stockpile

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Watch: Ukrainian Troops Destroy Russian Thermobaric Munitions Stockpile
Explosion at the Russian munition stockpile in Selydove, Donetsk region, February 28, 2025. (Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine)

Ukraine’s Armed Forces destroyed a storage facility holding thermobaric munitions  belonging to Russian forces near Selydove, in the temporarily occupied Donetsk region, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on February 28.

Additionally, Ukrainian forces struck three other critical Russian targets, including the Ilsky Oil Refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, which plays a key role in supplying fuel to the Russian military. The extent of the damage is still being assessed.

Earlier, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence destroyed 12 Russian artillery pieces and damaged seven more using the “Nemesis” drone in the Pokrovsk sector of the Donetsk region.

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A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, or a vacuum bomb, is a type of explosive munition that works by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid or powdered explosive.