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Two Soviet-made BM-27 Uragan heavy multiple rocket launchers of Kiev forces were destroyed in Russian strikes that targeted the city of Kharkiv in the early morning hours of April 6.
Video footage showing the two launchers being hit by a precision-guided missile as well as photos of the aftermath of the pinpoint strike were posted to social networks. The strike shredded one of the launchers into pieces, while the other burned down.
According to Russian news sources, Kiev forces were preparing the launchers for a rocket attack on the Russian region of Belgorod.
The launchers, which were hidden in a residential area, were fully-loaded at the time of the strike, as evident by the secondary explosions which caused casualties.
Click to see full-size image. Via Telegram.
Click to see full-size image. Via Telegram.
As usual, Ukrainian media didn’t initially admit that the morning Russian strikes on Kharkiv hit a military target. Only after the release of the strike footage, some Ukrainian news sources shared a video showing the scene of the strike with the wreckage of the burned launcher.
The Uragan 220 mm launcher can fire high explosive fragmentation, cluster or mine laying rockets. The effective firing range of the system is 35 kilometers. However, it can reach a maximum firing range of around 90 kilometers.
At least 70 such launchers were reportedly in service with Kiev forces. Many were however captured, damaged or destroyed after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
The strikes on Kharkiv came just a few hours after a missile attack targeted a plant of Ukraine’s Motor Sich, which produces engines for all sorts of aircraft, in the region of Zaporozhye.
In its daily briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that a group strike with air and sea-launched precision weapons and suicide drones targeted military industrial facilities and temporary deployment areas for foreign mercenaries in Ukraine overnight.
“The goal of the strike has been achieved,” the ministry said. “All the assigned targets have been engaged.”
Last month, the Russian military resumed large-scale strikes against Ukraine following a series of of provocations by Kiev, including dozens of strikes with rockets, missiles and suicide drones on Russian territory as well as several unsuccessful cross-border attacks.
The strikes on Zaporozhye and Kharkiv were likely a response to a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack that targeted five regions in Russia early on April 5.
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when biden is finished sniffing little girls he and boris will say keep fighting there are still a few ukrainians left.
russia must destroy all ukrainian weapons, rocket launchers, armored vehicles, cannons and mortars, especially all heavy weapons. priority air defense systems, planes and airports must be destroyed. communication routes, railways, roads, bridges, especially those in the west where they receive weapons and aid. power plants and electricity transmission lines cannot receive electricity from the west.
that was some hit! totally destroyed
lol, primitive urkonazi animals dying for western interests.
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very soon the only weapons left in ukraine will be sticks and stones.
i can destroy potato worship amerikunt dollar —i. not educated past 11 year old but trained in amerikan academy of submissive homosexual toilet scrubber—i very qualified to swallow mens fluids
the ukrops use these weapons to kill citizens whoever is giving them to ukropistan has blood on their hands.