The artillery of the Guard Tula formation of the Airborne Forces (Air Force) with the crew of the Msta-B howitzer eliminated a foreign-made self-propelled gun (self-propelled gun) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Soledar in the Bakhmut region. This was stated by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to information received from the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian howitzer, which did not allow the Russian Armed Forces to make active maneuvers, was destroyed with two shots from a distance of over 12 km. At the same time, control and adjustment of the fire salvo was carried out by the crews of unmanned aircraft of airborne reconnaissance units.
“Towed howitzer crews use high explosive, high-explosive fragmentation and precision-guided munitions,” the publication explains.
As the Ministry of Defense noted, this makes it possible to inflict the greatest damage to defensive structures, buried concrete fortifications, armored vehicles and the opponent’s manpower.
Before that, Sergei Zybinsky, head of the press center of the Russian “Western” troops statedThat Russian Armed Forces fighters repelled five attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.
He was previously a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated About the lack of understanding of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine.