Defense forces launched three ATACMS missile attacks on a Russian military camp and training ground behind the lines in the occupied Luhansk region.
Photos and video of a missile strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a Russian Army training ground between the villages of Rogovo and Kuban in the Novopskovsky district, located approximately 100 kilometers from Kupyansk in the occupied territory of the region of Lugansk, appeared yesterday on Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels.
The strike was likely carried out by ATACMS ballistic missiles with cluster warheads. As reported by the Russians themselves, the attack took place at a time when the command gathered soldiers “in an open field for formation.” As a result, as propagandists suggest, more than a hundred Russian military personnel may have died. Ukrainian Telegram channels confirm the losses and claim 116 dead.
What was used to strike the blow?
According to preliminary data, a camp and training ground of Russian troops in the Luhansk region was attacked by three MGM-140 ATACMS Block I cluster missiles with a range of up to 165 kilometers. OSINT analysts established that the strike was carried out near the village of Rogovo, 80 kilometers from the front line, that is, in the deep rear.
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Footage of the attack was captured by a drone. In the video, analysts estimated that there were 116 people on the training ground at the time of the hajay-kayo. However, they have no time to hide. As a result, as experts note, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the company of the invaders.
At the same time, analysts from Defense Express added that the distance to the test site from the front line could indicate that the strike could have been delivered not only with the ATACMS, which in the M39 version (ATACMS Block I) has a range of up to 165 km, but also the Tochka-U, which has a range of up to 120 km and can be equipped with a cluster warhead.
“At the same time, the main thing, as usual, is that the attack itself was carried out in a reconnaissance-strike circuit, where the drone sent the exact coordinates of the target online, and the weapon worked without delay,” said the Defense. Express.
Experts add that in total there are three “arrivals” at the camp and training area.
“The first to hit a concentration of personnel and a certain amount of equipment hit the field, instead, it was a miss man or equipment of the enemy was recorded in this area, despite the fact that in the first at a glance he also passed, crossing the Aydar River, and the silhouettes of military equipment could be seen in the smoke bursts and between the trees,” said the publication’s analysis.
What is known about losses
Donbass edition. The reality suggests that Russian Army personnel were burned (the number of personnel seen in the aerial reconnaissance footage is about 80 people), military trucks, probably Urals, and at least two armored personnel carrier.
A military man with the call sign Skhidny noted on his Telegram channel that in this area “the traffic of military equipment and personnel of the Russian Armed Forces is always very active”: almost every hour dozens of pieces of equipment was observed passing in both directions.
“It is clear that in this situation with the use of cluster munitions, the number of injured and killed Russian military personnel can be very large,” added Skhidny.
What the conquerors say
The Russian Telegram channel Kremlin snuffbox confirmed that dozens of Russian military personnel may have died at the training site.
“As a result of the Ukrainian strike with ATACMS cluster missiles on a training area near the village of Rogovo (LPR), according to various estimates, from 29 to 42 military personnel were killed More than 40 wounded,” the Russian public reported.
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The channel refers to sources in the General Staff and Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
“Different sources give different numbers. This may be due to the fact that not all the fragments of the corpses have been identified, so the exact number of victims has not been established ( according to one of the interlocutors) with a reluctance to recognize the true consequences of the “terrible failure,” say the propagandists.
“Some idiot again gathered a mass of military personnel in one place and exposed them to missiles, of course, I don’t want to talk about it,” admitted a source in the Russian General Staff.
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