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On December 17, several videos documenting some of the Russian military’s recent operations against Kiev forces surfaced online.
Seven of the videos show dozens of attacks with FPV suicide drones, grenade-dropping drones, and interceptor drones that targeted Ukrainian troops, posts and equipment, across several directions within the special military operation zone over the last few days.
Two other videos show recent strikes with Lancet loitering munition. Two of the strikes hit armored vehicles in the city of Zaporozhye, while the third hit a gas distribution center serving Kiev forces near the settlement of Semenovka in the direction of Chernihiv.
One more video shows an airstrike by an attack helicopter against a position of Kiev forces somewhere in Zaporozhye. The airstrike was carried out using a LMUR guided missile.
Another video shows an attack with a TOS thermobaric rocket launcher on Ukrainian fortifications near the settlement of Vovchanski Khutory in the direction of Kharkiv.
In its daily briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that missile, drone and artillery strikes hit “an assembly and testing centre of uncrewed surface vehicles of the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine), transport infrastructure facilities that supported the AFU, assembly centres of long-range attack drones as well as temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries in 143 areas” over the past 24 hours.
The ministry also said that Russian air defenses intercepted during the same period 180 fixed-wing drones which were launched by Kiev forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kiev forces have lost 669 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 103,542 drones, 640 air defense systems, 26,574 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,633 multiple rocket launchers, 31,973 artillery pieces, and 49,280 support vehicles since the start of the special military operation.
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