A video from the site of the explosion in the city of Klintsy, Bryansk Oblast of the Russian Federation appeared in Russian local Telegram channels. It shows a huge crater and an overturned armoured vehicle. These pictures contradict the words of a Russian governor that the missile was shot down by anti-aircraft defence, and there was no damage.

Source: Russian local Telegram channels; Belarusian news agency Zerkalo.io

Details: The crater in the video may indicate that the shell detonated on the ground. In addition, the blast wave probably overturned an armoured vehicle. The video also shows other tracked vehicles.

Zerkalo.io, quoting OSINT-investigators, reports that the attack hit a parking area of military equipment (perhaps faulty) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. In particular, as the news agency states, the video shows an engineering armoured vehicle and a UR-77 demining system.

The woman filming the video says that "the barracks were also damaged".

У мережі з'явилося відео наслідків вибуху в російському місті Клинці недалеко від кордону з Україною та Білоруссю. На ньому зафільмована величезна вирва і перевернута бронемашина. Відео з російських пабліків у Telegram pic.twitter.com/Q8wGVo96Yy

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This video refutes the words of Alexander Bogomaz, Governor of Bryansk Oblast, who said in the morning that the missile was fired on Klintsy allegedly by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and that there were no casualties or damage as a result of the attack.

However, the anti-aircraft defence had probably been activated: in the morning of 13 December, a local Telegram channel posted a video with a sound similar to the sound of an anti-aircraft missile being launched.

Background: Klintsy is a city of regional importance, the second largest in Bryansk Oblast. It is important from a military point of view: one of the military bases where Russia stockpiled armoured vehicles before the invasion of Ukraine is located in Klintsy.

Shortly before the full-scale invasion, in December 2021, the Reuters agency posted satellite pictures that showed an increase in the number of Russian armoured vehicles near the Ukrainian borders. One of the pictures shows equipment on the base in Klintsy.

The group of investigators of the Conflict Intelligence Team also paid attention to the accumulation of Russian equipment in Klintsy. Their data stated that the main addition of armoured vehicles arrived at the training ground in November 2021.

The second training ground, where many more armoured vehicles had turned up by the end of last year, was the training ground near the city of Klimovo. A fire broke out in this settlement on the night of 13 December, but its cause is still unknown.

Previously: Earlier, Alexander Bogomaz, Governor of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, has blamed the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the missile attack on the city of Klintsy on the night of 13 December.

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