A video released by the Ukrainian military on social media shows a dramatic new strike by HIMARS systems on groups of Russian soldiers in an open field who fell victim to tungsten cluster munitions.

One of the groups of the Russian military struck with KHIMARSPhoto: Video shooting – Tender

“Omfg” (Oh my f***** God), Dmytro, the founder of the well-known website War Translated, one of those who shared the video on his account on “X”, the former Twitter, succinctly notes.

The video shows 3 different groups of Russian soldiers taking turns being hit by HIMARS systems as they lined up in an open field.

Immediately after the images emerged, some netizens began to speculate that the strikes showed a HIMARS strike, acknowledged by the Russians a day earlier, which Ukrainian sources said killed at least 60 soldiers of the invasion force.

These assumptions arose in the conditions when there was no video of that strike, but only its consequences – dozens of dead Russian soldiers. Sources in the Ukrainian military also reported that a group of Russian soldiers allegedly got into the line-up of the military to inspect a high-ranking general.

More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in HIMARS strikes in just two days

But this strike, as the Russian governor and Moscow military bloggers also admitted, took place in the Volnova district of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, where fighting recently took place for the city of Avdiyivka.

The new footage was independently geolocated, as it was filmed in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, in the Oleshkivskiy Sands nature reserve, where the Russian military has reportedly set up a training ground.

Essentially, a comparison between the two videos seems to prove that yesterday’s was filmed in a different location, the landscape looks different, even if the images taken from the ground are not as clear.

There are almost 500 kilometers between the city of Volnovakha and the Olesky sands, they are located in different areas of the front.

Tendar, one of the accounts on “X” that provides regular updates on the fighting in Ukraine, Write it down as well as the fact that new video footage shows Russian military groups in Kherson hit by HIMARS systems armed with M30A1 cluster munitions.

This type of munition uses thousands of small tungsten fragments that have a devastating effect on soldiers over a large area of ​​terrain.

The U.S. military adopted the type of ammunition in 2017, saying at the time that it was better than cluster munitions because they did not leave behind unexploded projectiles that posed a danger to civilians.

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