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One Killed, Dozens Injured After Powerful Blast Hits Optical Plant Outside Moscow
www.rferl.org ^
| August 09, 2023
Posted on 08/09/2023 12:21:33 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Local officials in Russia say an explosion at an optical plant in the city of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 kilometers outside Moscow, killed one person and injured at least 43 people on August 9.
Five of the injured are in intensive care with serious burns or head injuries, according to the city administration's Telegram account. Some of the 43 people admitted to a regional hospital have shrapnel injuries, it said.
Officials at the city’s central hospital said that a woman had succumbed to wounds sustained in the blast.
Independent Telegram channel Baza shared images of a tall cloud of smoke and identified the site as the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant, which produces night-vision and other optical devices for the military.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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To: Grzegorz 246
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posted on
08/09/2023 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: buwaya
It is an artillery shell factory, or at least storage for them. That's why a lot of artillery shells got launched out of the explosion. Like the one in the video below.
Video from the scene
To: Steely Tom
They rented a warehouse to a fireworks company.
There were no drones or missiles.
Wishful thinking for team zelensky.
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posted on
08/09/2023 1:24:13 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
To: Palio di Siena
[We see what you did there]
Not in the dark.
To: MarMema
They rented a warehouse to a fireworks company. Thanks for sharing the Russian talking point. Why would a "fireworks" company have artillery shells?
To: Grzegorz 246
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posted on
08/09/2023 2:34:38 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: freeandfreezing
You’ve got to be careful storing those metal pipes. The Russians should have taken precautions.
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posted on
08/09/2023 2:44:09 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: freeandfreezing
You’ve got to be careful storing those metal pipes. The Russians should have taken precautions.
28
posted on
08/09/2023 2:44:21 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
To: freeandfreezing
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posted on
08/09/2023 3:03:03 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
To: Magnum44
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posted on
08/09/2023 3:39:51 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
To: MarMema
Oh, noes, careless worker mixed pasteurized baby milk with homogenized milk while smoking...
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:01:15 PM PDT
by
Justa
(If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
To: MarMema
I believe the poster meant artillery shells as photographed in post 20.
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:15:24 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: freeandfreezing
Looks like a blockbuster.
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:19:18 PM PDT
by
mware
To: ansel12
When I saw that it looked just like the stuff they shoot from cannons here for fireworks in our neighboring community.
And I already replied. They look like military stuff but they are professional grade fireworks.
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:19:40 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
To: ansel12
What is the source of the photo?
Russians are very open about saying when they were attacked.
Ukraine has not claimed this as an attack.
Maybe it’s just a bunch of freepers all worked up over nothing.
The usual zelensky loving crowd.
Wishing and hoping, but this time it was not Ukraine.
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:32:59 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
To: MarMema
I was in the artillery, it looks like an artillery round to me and it doesn’t look like a firework.
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posted on
08/09/2023 4:39:33 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: MarMema
LOL, take a look at the "artillery shells" shown in the website at your link. They aren't actual metal artillery shell casings complete with the sealing rings.
What do you think would happen if you actually launched real steel artillery shells up in the air during a fireworks show?
They would come back down, and damage anything they hit.
Fireworks are not launched in steel shells with the sealing rings artillery rounds have.
To: freeandfreezing
Ok. Where is the photo from?
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posted on
08/09/2023 6:39:11 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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