The Russian M-9 federal motorway, also known as the Baltic Highway, has been closed to traffic in Tver Oblast after an attack on a missile storage depot. Source: TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet;

Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked one of the largest arsenals in Russia, causing a powerful detonation in the town of Toropets in Russia's Tver Oblast, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Kyiv Independent.

A fire and detonation have occurred in the town of Toropets in Russia’s Tver Oblast, following a drone attack on the night of 17-18 September. Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS;

The apparently successful drone attack comes as Ukraine is pushing its Western allies to lift restrictions on the missiles they have supplied for similar attacks inside Russia.

A large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered an earthquake-sized blast at a major arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a nearby town, war bloggers and some media reported.

A massive drone attack on Russia's Tver region to the northwest of Moscow overnight forced authorities to partially evacuate residents of a town and shut schools and kindergartens in a neighboring municipality.

The explosions in Toropets, in the Tver region, were so intense that they were picked up by NASA satellites and earthquake monitors.

A major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia triggered a giant blast and forced the partial evacuation of residents near the site of a large Russian arsenal in the Tver region on Wednesday, war bloggers and some media reported.

A partial evacuation has been ordered in Russia's Tver region after a "massive" Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire there, the local governor has said. Igor Rudenya said emergencies services in the town of Toropets were trying to "localise" the blaze caused by falling drone wreckage.

The Tver region is situated about 380 kilometres northwest of Moscow and roughly 500 kilometres from the border with Ukraine. According to the official, the depot housed Iskander and Tochka-U missiles,