Ukraine has Russia’s all-important ammunition depots firmly in its sights, but Kyiv’s successes in hitting valuable munitions bases across the border are limited by its Western allies’ refusal to green-light long-range-strike weapons.
Since late summer, Ukraine has intensified its targeting of ammunition depots, which are vital for keeping Russia’s guns and artillery systems firing, inside Russia and in Moscow-held Ukrainian territory.
In July, a law enforcement source told Ukrainian online newspaper The Kyiv Independent that drones had stuck a large ammunition depot in the village of Sergeevka, in Russia’s Voronezh region.
Voronezh’s regional governor, Alexander Gusev, said at the time that air defenses had destroyed incoming Ukrainian drones, but “when their remains fell, a fire broke out at one of the warehouses.”
“Explosive objects began to detonate,” Gusev said.
The Russian governor issued a similar statement in late August, saying drone debris had sparked a blaze, …