Moment Ukrainian warehouse full of Western ammunition bursts into flames after Russian missile strike - as Kremlin claims to have seized villages in Donetsk region

This is the infinitesimal Russia claims to person struck a Ukrainian weapons depot filled with Western-supplies munitions. 

Footage shared connected societal media shows the depot successful Odesa consumed by a raging inferno, aft Russia struck it with an Iskander-M missile.  

Mini-explosions, presumed to beryllium detonating munitions, tin beryllium heard going disconnected arsenic fume fills the nighttime entity implicit the larboard city.  

The Colonel Cassad Telegram transmission with 896,000 followers reported: 'There is simply a occurrence successful Bugayevskaya [street] successful Odesa aft a strike.

'Judging by the footage, ammunition depots are burning, secondary detonation is heard…..

'Cartridges are flying successful antithetic directions.'

Major Ukrainian quality outlet Unian said 'the origin of occurrence is unknown'.

The warehouse analyzable was adjacent a cardinal obstruction line. No details were fixed successful archetypal reports astir the benignant of ammunition allegedly successful the warehouses.

It comes as Putin said connected Sunday that Russia's defence ministry was moving connected antithetic ways to respond if the United States and its NATO allies assistance Ukraine to onslaught heavy into Russia with long-range Western missiles.

The penetration has triggered the biggest confrontation betwixt Russia and the West since the depths of the Cold War, and Russian officials accidental the warfare is present entering its astir unsafe phase.

Russia has been signalling to the United States and its allies for weeks that if they springiness support to Ukraine to onslaught heavy into Russian territory with Western-supplied missiles, past Moscow volition see it a large escalation.

Putin said connected Sept. 12 that Western support for specified a measurement would mean 'the nonstop engagement of NATO countries, the United States and European countries successful the warfare successful Ukraine' due to the fact that NATO subject infrastructure and unit would person to beryllium progressive successful the targeting and firing of the missiles.

Putin said that it was excessively aboriginal to accidental precisely however Russia would respond to specified a determination but that Moscow would person to respond accordingly and antithetic options were being examined.

'(The Russian defence ministry) is reasoning astir however to respond to the imaginable long-range strikes connected Russian territory, it volition connection a scope of responses,' Putin told Russian authorities TV's apical Kremlin reporter, Pavel Zarubin.

With Russia advancing astatine the fastest complaint successful eastbound Ukraine since the archetypal months of the invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with the West to let Kyiv to occurrence heavy into Russia with Western missiles.

The United States has not said publically if it volition let Ukraine to onslaught Russia, but immoderate U.S. officials are profoundly sceptical that doing truthful would marque a important quality successful the war.

Ukrainian forces already onslaught heavy into Russia connected a regular ground with long-range drones.

Putin, who ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine successful 2022 aft 8 years of warring successful eastbound Ukraine, casts the warfare arsenic a conflict betwixt Russia and the declining West, which helium says ignored Russia's interests aft the 1991 Soviet collapse.

Ukraine and its Western allies accidental Putin unleashed an imperial-style warfare against its smaller neighbour and person repeatedly said that if Russia wins the warfare past autocratic countries crossed the satellite volition beryllium emboldened.

Just weeks earlier the U.S. statesmanlike election, Putin changed Russia's atomic doctrine

in what the Kremlin said was an effort to awesome Russia's interest implicit Western discussions astir rocket strikes from Ukraine.

Asked if the West had heard Russia's warnings, Putin told Zarubin: 'I anticipation they person heard. Because, of course, we volition person to marque immoderate decisions for ourselves, too.'

Putin said that lone NATO officers would beryllium capable to occurrence specified weapons into Russia and that they would request to usage Western outer information for targeting the weapons truthful the question is truly 'whether they volition let themselves to onslaught heavy into Russian territory oregon not. That is the question.'

U.S. officials accidental the United States is not seeking to escalate the conflict.

How a caller U.S. president volition attack the warfare is unclear: erstwhile U.S. president Donald Trump has said helium volition extremity the Ukraine warfare portion Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris says she volition proceed to enactment Ukraine.