Explosion at Strategic Site and Other Stories

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 same distance as the Engels base, which was hit earlier in the war. This would be a strategic target, assuming this was not an accident. And there is a good chance this was not an accident.

Demography

Those of you listening to Timothy Zahn are in for a treat. Russian statisticians are now sounding like him. There is also a much darker side to this. But first, the post:

The extinction of Russia, which could lose more than 12 million people by 2046 , will begin with the largest cities. According to the document, in the next two decades the leaders in natural population decline will be Moscow and St. Petersburg .

In general, according to Rosstat’s forecast, the population of Russia will decline at a rate of more than 500 thousand people per year until 2046 . At the same time , more than 200 thousand migrants will arrive in Russia annually . The cumulative total by 2046 will reach 4.8…