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The Russian military struck two gatherings of Kiev forces in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) using Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on July 21.
The ministry released video footage of the strike, which it said neutralized 240 Ukrainian troops and more than 60 pieces of equipment.
“The Iskander-M operational-tactical systems carried out group missile strikes against two military echelons -each made up of 20 platforms- with personnel and military hardware of the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] 41st Mechanized Brigade near Barvenkovo -in the DPR-,” the ministry said.
The destroyed equipment included 14 American-made MaxxPro armored vehicles, ten Canadian-made Senator armored combat vehicles, seven armored personnel carriers, two combat reconnaissance vehicles, five armored recovery vehicles and more than 20 trucks, according to the ministry.
The Iskander-M missile has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
Russia increased production of Iskander-M missiles after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago.
The Russian military began to rely more on the missile to quickly target high-value Ukrainian targets, like large gatherings, in recent months.
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rf has total control of the battlefield and all resistance is suicidal. onwards to the new borderline from kharkiv to odessa!
what a strike! of course you will not hear a word about this on western media. they prefer to spin nonsense about russia losing the war, laughable to say the least. slava rossiya!
ukronazis iskandered again…