Russian soldiers send a reconnaissance drone into the sky before setting up their Hurricane multiple-launch rocket system and sending over a volley of missiles at Ukrainian targets, as revealed in a released video.
The Russian military said troops used an Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone to gather information on the enemy’s location before moving their battery of rocket systems into firing position.
After firing a flurry of rockets at Ukrainian targets, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said they destroyed the enemy targets.
The Russian MoD said on May 31: “The Hurricane MLRS battery received the coordinates of discovered fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from operators of the Orlan-10 UAV [unmanned aerial vehicles].
“After receiving the targets, the battery moved into firing position and struck at the camouflaged armored vehicles and enemy stronghold.
“As a result of the strike, armored vehicles, manpower and artillery means of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.”
Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is still calling a “special military operation”. June 1 marks the 98th day of the campaign.
From February 24 to June 1, the total combat losses of Russian troops stand at around 30,700 personnel, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military also claims that Russia has lost 1,361 tanks, 3,343 armored fighting vehicles, 659 artillery systems, 207 multiple launch rocket systems, 94 anti-aircraft systems, 208 warplanes, 175 helicopters, 2,290 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, 13 vessels, 519 unmanned aerial vehicles, 49 units of special equipment, and 120 cruise missiles.
In recent news, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russian strikes on a nitric acid tank in the besieged eastern city of Sievierodonetsk “madness”.
Residents of Sievierodonetsk have been warned to remain in bomb shelters and to prepare masks to protect against toxic fumes.
Analysts say up to 70 percent of the city is now controlled by Russian forces, with almost all critical infrastructure and housing destroyed.
United States President Joe Biden said he will send Kyiv more advanced rocket systems that will help to strike enemy forces from a longer distance.
These rocket systems have double the range of the rocket systems used by Russian forces and are much more accurate.
And European Union leaders reached an agreement to ban 90 percent of oil imports from Russia, but they remain undecided on gas imports.
Despite setbacks in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops have made advances in Kherson in the south and around Kharkiv in the northeast.
