• Ukrainian forces took out more than 100 Russian soldiers with an ATACMS missile, per OSINT analysts.
  • Four ATACMS were used to target the group, one analyst said.
  • The soldiers would have been out of reach of Ukraine’s shorter-range ATACMS missiles.

A Ukrainian ATACMS long-range missile strike killed more than 100 Russian soldiers in an occupied region 50 miles from the front line, according to OSINT and military analysts.

Ukrainian forces targeted a Russian military training area some 50 miles behind the front line in the occupied Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, per an assessment by The Institute for the Study of War.

According to two aerial geolocated videos posted on Wednesday by X user Osinttechnical, an account affiliated with the Centre for Naval Analyses, Ukraine appeared to strike the training area with three US-supplied M39 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    War is hell, at this rate Russians would have suffered less losses from forcefully removing Putin.

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      I’m still amazed that Prigozhen lasted as long as he did after playing chicken with Putin like that…I don’t think things would have gotten materially better if he’d finished his march but it’s hard to imagine it getting worse (at least outside of Russia).

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          6 months ago

          Turning around and marching toward Moscow should have been an obvious point of no return. Either he was going to die, or Putin was, no exceptions.

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            He likely viewed his march to be against Shoigu and not Putin. An obvious mistake in hindsight.

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          He should have had his “soft” targets better protected. Russia has a long tradition punishing the families of those that oppose them.