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On June 4, several videos showing recent combat operations by the Russian military against Kiev forces in several directions were posted to social networks.
Six of the videos showed more than 60 recent FPV drone strikes that targeted Ukrainian troops, positions and equipment in Donetsk, Sumy and other directions. The targeted equipment included more than two dozen reconnaissance and attack drones.
An additional video showed an attack with FPV drones and a Lancet loitering munition on a German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzer in Donetsk.
Five strikes by Orion and Forpost-R combat drones on Ukrainian troops and posts in the Sumy direction are seen in two more video.
Three additional videos showed recent airstrikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces that targeted a position of Ukraine’s 81st Airmobile Brigade in the settlement of Seversk in Donetsk, a series of military posts near the settlement of Novopavlovka in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk and an air define site in Sumy.
All the airstrikes seen in the videos were carried out using bombs equipped with UMPK guidance and gliding kits.
From its side, the Russian Ministry of Defense released footage showing a strike with a Geran suicide drone on a large ammunition depot of Kiev forces in the direction of Kherson.
The ministry also announced in its daily briefing that missile and drone strikes hit Ukrainian targets in 33 areas over the past 24 hours.
“Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces destroyed a launcher, a radar and an engagement control station of a German-made IRIS-T surface-to-air missile system and struck a fuel producing enterprise, workshops for the assembly of attack unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage sites, ammunition depots, a logistics base, and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations in 133 locations,” the ministry said.
It added that Russian air defenses intercepted three M142 HIMARS projectiles and 109 fixed-wing drones during the same period.
According to the ministry, Kiev forces have lost 663 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 60,316 drones, 610 air defense systems, 23,749 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,566 multiple rocket launchers, 25,696 artillery pieces, and 36,441 support vehicles since the start of the special military operation.
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