Posting on a Toropets chatroom on the social media site VK, one woman said: “Why wasn’t the ammunition underground?! What are you doing???? In Kudino, houses were blown away! Why is the forest burning and no one is there… What kind of negligence is this!!!!”
On the Toropets chatroom, another commenter said: “People, does anyone know what’s happened to Kudino village??? They told me nothing is left of our house.”
One person added: “It’s horror there.”
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington DC-based think tank, reports that Russian military bloggers are also furious after the attack.
They said: “Russian milbloggers largely criticised Russian authorities for poorly constructing the facility and accused Russian forces of possibly mishandling missiles and artillery ammunition stockpiles at the facility.”
The explosion at the depot was so big that it was picked up by earthquake monitoring stations.
The strike came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to urge Western leaders to allow Kyiv to strike Russian territory with their weapons.
This includes Britain’s Storm Shadow long-range missiles.
Zelensky has also claimed that Ukraine has a plan that is “90 percent ready” and will hand Kyiv victory in the war.
He added: “The most important thing now is the determination to implement it,” the president said in his address.
“There isn’t and cannot be any alternative to peace, no freezing of the war or any other manipulations that will simply postpone Russian aggression to a later stage.”
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak also warned the West against freezing the conflict.
He said: “(Freezing of the conflict) will not lead to the end of the war but will only lead to Russia gaining the opportunity to accumulate additional resources and proceed to the third stage (of the war) with more mass killings of civilians in Ukraine,”
