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Meanwhile In Donetsk...
Zero Hedge ^ | 2/8/15 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/08/2015 4:13:08 PM PST by Enlightened1

As leaders from France, Cyprus, Germany, US, Russia, and Ukraine drop tape-bombs of turmoil at one another, the following somewhat stunning clip suggests on the ground in Eastern Europe, other - far bigger - bombs are being lobbed...

The somewhat mushroom-cloud-like explosion in Donetsk...

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: ammodump; donetsk; mushroomcloud; russia; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/08/2015 4:13:08 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Here is a video of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQ5EPnSE_4


2 posted on 02/08/2015 4:13:38 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Tochka-u?


3 posted on 02/08/2015 4:25:43 PM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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To: donozark

Both sides have them


4 posted on 02/08/2015 4:27:32 PM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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Looks to me like something major was hit.

Like a weapons staging ground.


5 posted on 02/08/2015 4:27:37 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: donozark

Think it’s a tactical nuke? If it is, then it’s very small.

I don’t think it is. Looks to me either a weapons staging ground was hit or some time of light MOAB.


6 posted on 02/08/2015 4:30:20 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: donozark

Yes they do


7 posted on 02/08/2015 4:30:48 PM PST by Enlightened1
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Dario Marchetti ‏@dariomarchetti9 · 2h2 hours ago “@EuromaidanPress: A "DNR" explosives depo is ablaze in #Donetsk now. Seems we now know what that huge explosion was!! https://twitter.com/euromaidanpress/status/564550781316370432
8 posted on 02/08/2015 4:31:04 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Enlightened1

Apparently Ukraine hit on Russian weapons.


9 posted on 02/08/2015 4:35:24 PM PST by Rusty0604
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If it were a nuke there are ways the worlds major military powers would know. Air and ground based sensors, satellites, Ricther Scales, etc. that would pick up air borne radiation and ground tremors.
10 posted on 02/08/2015 4:42:26 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Enlightened1

Conventional warhead.massive but non-nuke.
A couple months ago similar thing happened in Donetsk. As I recall Tochka-u struck Russian ammo dump fired by Ukr forces. Or So reported


11 posted on 02/08/2015 4:44:05 PM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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I just went to YouTube and entered “Donetsk explosion” and a couple videos came up. But don’t show much more. Fireball of short duration. 30 seconds or less. Sort of looks like “shock and awe” the bombing of Baghdad.


12 posted on 02/08/2015 5:31:48 PM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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Range about three miles....


13 posted on 02/08/2015 7:57:00 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Cant believe some lunatic shot THAT into a city full of normal people.


14 posted on 02/08/2015 9:06:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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That’s an ammo dump going boom, blame the Russians for their haphazard ammunition storage policies. Although I’m pretty sure that the Russian logistics guys are all dead.


15 posted on 02/08/2015 11:17:07 PM PST by MeatshieldActual (Texan Independence, now and forever!)
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To: jmacusa

not to mention the EMP generated by such a device, if you have people screaming their cellphones and computers don’t work in a ring around the area..then you should be concerned


16 posted on 02/09/2015 1:19:14 AM PST by WINTER63
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To: Enlightened1

My understanding is Ukraine hit a chemical/weapons depot the rebels had controlled.


17 posted on 02/09/2015 1:41:43 AM PST by caww
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To: Rusty0604

chemical plant in Kuybyshevsky district that militants used as ammo storage was hit by Ukraine forces.

Also it appears Former fighters of Ukrainian “Berkut” are in Novorossian forces now.


18 posted on 02/09/2015 1:57:10 AM PST by caww
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To: DesertRhino

Video from Swiss reporting....on the new battle...seems Ukraine Battalions were sent out without communication equip. fired on each other devastating blows....70 hospitalized and others dead....moral is very low as the battalion commander speaks here....improperly trained soldiers being sent out...( I have heard this often).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAfkqW9Gog


19 posted on 02/09/2015 2:05:35 AM PST by caww
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To: DesertRhino
Russians used the Tochka in Chechnya and Georgia wars. Syrian Gov. troops used it recently against "Syrian rebels."

And now reports coming out of Russian aircraft attacking Debaltseve. True? False? Who the hell knows. But enough guilt to go around here...

20 posted on 02/09/2015 6:23:52 AM PST by donozark (On the other side of fear lies freedom)
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