Explosion at Strategic Site and Other Stories

Nadin Brzezinski
8 min readFeb 7, 2024

Let me start with some breaking news. There was a significant explosion at a plant that produces ICBMs; some of these delivery systems have been rarely used against Ukraine. They are primarily nuclear delivery systems.

Let’s start with a Z-Channel post, which means something did go boom. The harder they deny it, the better the noise signal, so I expect satellite imaging to appear in due time:

“Heavy explosion” in Izhevsk — don’t panic
▪️Frightening footage shows a rocket engine being burned at a test site.
▪️Enemy and Russian resources rushed to publish panicky news with a video of a pillar of fire from a training ground near Izhevsk.
❗️The Ministry of Emergency Situations stated that the cause of the column of fire was “technical work” at the Votkinsk machine-building plant. The fire was captured by eyewitnesses in the area of ​​the plant’s testing site near the village of Yagul.
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If you are curious, here is a story with an embedded video of a rocket test for the Artemis system. This looks nothing like that. Rumors were floating that a nuke was used, but no such animal. Nor does the video show the classic mushroom cloud that you see with some conventional explosives or accidents. That’s physics.

The place is west of the Urals but still deep within Russia. It is about the…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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