Aha Dua Permata: Watch Russian Army Decimate Ukrainian Vehicle With Lancet Drone

Thursday, 9 November 2023

Watch Russian Army Decimate Ukrainian Vehicle With Lancet Drone

Lancets are one of Russia’s most advanced kamikaze drones – a type of projectile that should be more correctly referred to as loitering munition, which fills the niche between cruise missiles and regular UAVs.

Sputnik has obtained footage that shows Russian Special Forces destroying a Ukrainian vehicle with a Lancet kamikaze drone. The Ukrainian Army tried to hide its military equipment in the wooded area, but Russian troops discovered it and blasted it with loitering munitions.

Russia successfully employs kamikaze drones as part of the special military operation to perform surgical high-precision strikes and avoid unnecessary risk for its soldiers.

Russia Repels 8 Attacks in South Donetsk Direction, Ukraine Loses Up to 145 Soldiers

Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin described Kiev’s summer counteroffensive attempt as a total failure, which racked up a total death toll of more than 90,000 Ukrainian soldiers.

Russia's Vostok group of forces has repelled eight attacks by the Ukrainian military in the South Donetsk direction, with Kiev losing up to 145 service people and military equipment, Oleg Chekhov, the group's spokesman, told Sputnik on Thursday.

"In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces, in cooperation with artillery, repelled eight attacks ... in the areas of (the town) of Novomikhailovka and north of (the towns of) Nikolskoe, Urozhainoe and Staromayorskoe," he said, adding that Ukraine lost up to 145 soldiers, military vehicles and two radar stations.

He added that Russian kamikaze drone Lancet has also struck Polish-made self-propelled tracked gun-howitzer AHS Krab. Ukraine has also lost several D-20 and FH-70 howitzers and five mortar units.

Ukrainian drone drops cluster bombs on Russian town – governor

A Ukrainian unmanned aircraft has dropped cluster munitions on a food plant in Russia’s Kursk Region, Governor Roman Starovoyt reported on Thursday. Images that the official shared online suggest the payload may have been Western-made.

The reported attack took place at a butter-making facility in the town of Sudzha, less than 10km from the Ukrainian border. A total of three cluster bombs were dropped at the location, the governor said, causing some damage but no casualties. One failed to detonate and is being handled by a bomb squad.

©Telegram/Roman Starovoyt

Ukraine has been using Soviet-made cluster munitions since the hostilities in Donbass started in 2014, according to Human Rights Watch. The type of explosive is controversial due to its design, with dozens of small submunitions that are normally scattered over an area. Some of them can fail to detonate and remain a hazard years and even decades later. Kiev was given access to Western-made weapons in July, after the US started supplying some from its stockpiles.

Starovoyt shared several images of the munitions recovered in Sudzha, including small bomblets and a fragment of the casing with the letters “SH” written in yellow on it.

Washington justified its decision to arm Kiev with cluster weapons by claiming that the Ukrainian forces had pledged not to use them in populated areas. The US government also argued that the additional contamination would not be relevant, considering that both Russia and Ukraine have been using their own cluster munitions throughout the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in July that Moscow reserved the right to use its cluster weapons in response to Ukrainian deployments, when he commented on deliveries by the US. He claimed Russian forces had previously refrained from using such weapons even when there was a shortage of other types of munitions.

Last week, Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, stated that the frontline action with Russia had reached a stalemate. The government of President Vladimir Zelensky rejected the assessment and criticized Zaluzhny for his remarks.

Russian officials have claimed that since Kiev’s attempts to make territorial gains have proven futile, it is increasingly resorting to terrorist methods. The warning was reiterated this week by Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council.

He cited a recent Ukrainian drone attack on a nuclear power plant in Kursk Region as an example of such an escalation. The incident in late October involved kamikaze drones, which reportedly carried Western-made explosives.