A senior Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official told POLITICO that Kyiv's forces struck deep inside Russian territory, around 1,000 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border.Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images

Watch video as Ukraine wipes Russian weapons depot ‘off the face of the earth’ – POLITICO

by · POLITICO

KYIV — Ukraine carried out a destructive drone attack against a critical Russian missile site northwest of Moscow, its security service said Wednesday.

A senior Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official told POLITICO that Kyiv's forces struck deep inside Russian territory, around 1,000 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border, wiping "off the face of the earth a large warehouse of the main missile and artillery department" belonging to the Russian defense ministry.

Videos from the scene in Toropets, a town in Russia's Tver region, provided by the SBU to POLITICO, showed a giant, fiery mushroom cloud as the depot blew up.