Day 1,259: ammunition dump

Ukraine has used himars, a rocket system the Americans have been supplying since June, to devastating effect against Russian ammunition dumps and command-and-control centres, allowing the rapid advance first in the north-east and then in the south.

A looming Russian offensive

Artwork of the day 
An Ammunition Box and Mounted Gunners of E/b Battery Royal Horse Artillery Passing Men of the 66th Foot Before the Battle of Maiwand
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
Date: 1880
Style: Romanticism
Genre: battle painting

Word of the day 
ammunition dump: ammunition handling area (AHA) or ammunition depot is a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives

Quote of the day
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My