A video captured the moment in which Russian military vehicles are destroyed in a base hidden under dozens of trees, after being discovered by the Ukrainian army.
Zenger News obtained the images from the 27.a Separate Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Wednesday 27 of May.
The 45.a Separate Artillery Brigade posted on a Telegram channel: “The daily life of the cannons: we shred the orcs for fertilizer”.
“This video shows the chronology of the interaction between the reconnaissance units 15 DVKR and Azov and the brigade gunners. They fly, we destroy!”, they pointed out.
The Ukrainian military frequently refers to Russian troops as “orcs” in its communications, and the “DVKR 15″ refers to the Department of Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army used a reconnaissance drone to discover the positions of Russian troops between a line of trees that delimit a field.
According to reports, the artillery strikes wiped out a Russian platoon base and damaged several Russian combat vehicles. fantry enemies.
The 45.a Separate Artillery Brigade was created in 2014 and is headquartered in Lviv Oblast. The brigade did not specify in which part of Ukraine the images were filmed.
In other developments, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces have attacked more than 29 villages in the eastern region of Donbas.
They added that five civilians were killed, 12 were injured and 47 civilian sites were destroyed or damaged in the latest attacks.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree which makes it easier for Ukrainians in the occupied areas to become citizens of Russia.
Russia also removed the upper age limit for contractual service in its military.
Ukraine has qualified as “blackmail” Russia’s offer to lift the blockade of its Black Sea ports in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions. The blockade has caused shortages of wheat and cooking oil around the world.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Nazi appeasers in 1938.
Kissinger had suggested that Ukraine should allow Russia to keep Crimea, which it annexed in 2014 after a disputed referendum.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 in February in what Putin initially called a “special military operation” to “demilitarize and denazify” Ukraine.
The Kremlin still calls the invasion a “special military operation”, but now says its goal is to “protect Donbas”.
This 27 of May marks the day 95 of the invasion.
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