Unexplained explosions inside Russia

 Stephen Green:

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The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan reported that a major oil depot was hit on Monday in Bryansk, more than 60 miles inside Russia’s border with Ukraine. That’s outside the range of most of Ukraine’s drones.

While interesting, it isn’t exactly a “what the hell?” moment. British troops have been training Ukraine’s special operators since Russia annexed Ukraine and armed insurgents in Ukraine’s Donbas region back in 2014.

Two more such attacks were reported the next day:

Two explosions were reported in Voronezh, nearly 200 miles from Ukraine, and a Ukrainian drone was reportedly shot down over Kursk, about 70 miles from the border.

The attacks in Kursk and Voronezh, where air-defense systems were reportedly activated, raised the specter of a wider war, as they were farther inside Russia than previous targets.

If you had asked me last week if Ukraine could hit a target 200 miles inside Russia, I’d have been doubtful.

Actually, it’s still a bit hard to believe.

But maybe you’ll join me in asking “What the hell is going on in Russia?” after these next few items.

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Last week in Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, a Russian missile research facility caught fire, killing 17. Russian authorities claimed the blaze was an accident, but they claimed the same thing at first about Moskva.

At nearly the same time, Russia’s largest chemical plant burned to the ground in Kineshma, about 150 miles east of Moscow.

On Wednesday, Newsweek reported on “mysterious explosions throughout Russia,” including an ammunition depot in Belgorod, well north of Kyiv. Almost at the same time, nearly 200 miles away in Voronezh, more explosions were reported in a neighborhood near Russia’s Baltimor military airfield. And in Kursk, about halfway in between Belgorod and Voronezh, more explosions were reported.

That would be a busy night even for the special forces of a much larger country than Ukraine.

Then this bit of weirdness happened in downtown Moscow on Wednesday:

Another one came in just as I was writing this report:

Tyumen is on the far side of the Ural Mountains from Ukraine in western Siberia.

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There is more.

It reminds me of the closing scene in The Hunt for Red October where the Russian ambassador tells his American counterpart that Russia has lost a major submarine.  Bad things keep happening to them.  It would not surprise me if special forces from Ukraine and possibly elsewhere are involved.  It is probably hard for Russia to respond to all of these events because it has most of what are left of its troops inside Ukraine trying to reconstitute themselves back into an army.