• 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.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Only professional and volunteers in Ukraine… contractniki. Conscripts are used to fill homeland positions.

    Granted… some are voluntold… but I would not characterize it as “a lot” but “some”…

    Counting the volunteers who went to war willingly only to find themselves as cannon fodder and now regret their decision as “don’t want to fight” is not correct… because if properly supplied or when easily winning these guys would be wiping out ukranians with a smile on their face.