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WAR IN UKRAINE: Defending Troops Destroy Russian Storage Facilities

This is the moment Ukrainian troops destroy Russian storage facilities with fuel and weapons intended for the invading forces.

The 45th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said the Russian base burned all night.

The brigade said in a statement on 4th June that they used two drones to carry out the attack, and one was destroyed by the Russian forces’ return fire. However, not before inflicting maximum damage on the enemy facilities.

Ukrainian artillerymen destroyed warehouses of Russian troops with fuel, equipment and ammunition in June 2022. (@45oabr/Newsflash)

Russian troops invaded Ukraine on 24th February in what the Kremlin is still calling a “special military operation”. Today marks the 103rd day of the campaign.

From 24th February to 6th June, the total combat losses of Russian troops stand at around 31,250 personnel, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian military also claims that Russia has lost 1,386 tanks, 3,400 armoured fighting vehicles, 690 artillery systems, 207 multiple launch rocket systems, 96 anti-aircraft systems, 211 warplanes, 176 helicopters, 2,395 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, 13 vessels, 551 unmanned aerial vehicles, 53 units of special equipment, and 125 cruise missiles.

Ukrainian artillerymen destroyed warehouses of Russian troops with fuel, equipment and ammunition in June 2022. (@45oabr/Newsflash)

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communications (StratCom) claimed on 6th June that Russian Major General Roman Kutuzov was killed in a battle near Popasna in the Luhansk region.

StratCom said: “Exclusive. Meet. Commander of the DNR’s 1st Army Corps (of the orcs), Major General Roman Kutuzov has been officially denazified and demilitarized”.

Ukraine’s Armed Forces are “holding out” as Russian invaders attempt to seize the city of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk region.

Ukrainian artillerymen destroyed warehouses of Russian troops with fuel, equipment and ammunition in June 2022. (@45oabr/Newsflash)

Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said: “The Russians are storming Sievierodonetsk… Street fights are ongoing there. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding the defence. The head of state, who visited our advanced positions in the Luhansk region at night, was convinced of this.”

Last week, the Russian MoD said that its Yars mobile missile systems, which can carry nuclear warheads and which boast a reported range of over 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles), were performing “intensive manoeuvring operations on combat patrol routes in the Ivanovo Region”, east of the Russian capital Moscow.

This came after US President Joe Biden said he will send Kyiv more advanced rocket systems that will help to strike enemy forces from a longer distance. These rocket systems have double the range of the rocket systems used by Russian forces and are said to be much more accurate.

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