Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Michael Leidig, Agency: Newsflash
This footage shows Ukrainian troops firing artillery pieces at Russian military targets and ends with a montage of exploding warehouses and charred vehicles.
Newsflash obtained the video from the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade – an artillery formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces – yesterday (Sunday, 12th June).
The brigade said (in Ukrainian): “Protecting Ukraine is our vocation!
“There are fewer enemy positions, fewer Grads, tanks and other equipment of the occupiers and more confidence in our victory.
“When they work, [they are] the gods of war – fighters of the 44th Separate Artillery Brigade named after Hetman Daniel the Apostle.
“Glory to Ukraine!”
The BM-21 Grad is a self-propelled 122-mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. It entered service in 1963.
The brigade did not specify where in Ukraine the footage was filmed or list what equipment was destroyed in the strikes.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24th February in what the Kremlin is calling a “special military operation” to “liberate the Donbass”. The invasion is now in its 110th day.
