The Ukrainian strike planners struck a Russian missile base with long -range drones on Thursday that destroyed buildings and targeted service staff for the second consecutive day, in retaliation for a bloody Russian Sunday strike who killed dozens of civilians and wounded more than a hundred.
The attack targeted the attachment base of the 112nd brigade of Missiles of Russian army guards, the unit thought by the Ukrainian military intelligence agency Hur for having pulled a pair of surface surface missiles in the center of the Ukrainian city in the north of Sumy, in the deadliest strike in Russia against civilians in months.
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A Hur Tuesday press release said the Russian forces had drawn two ISKANDER-M ballistic missiles armed with cluster munitions, a launched in the Russian Kursk region and one of its Belgorod region, in the bloody attack of Sumy.
An Iskander missile equipped with cluster ammunition, called 9m27k, is generally loaded with about half a-tonne of cylinder-shaped bombs, each weighing approximately 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds). As designed, to deliver the bombs where the launcher aims, an ISKANDER flies towards a point in the sky between 900-1 400 meters (2,953-4593 feet) above a planned target, the missile nose cone opens, and when the warhead is 6-10 meters (20-33 feet) compared to the target, a triggered load is dispersed.
Under ideal conditions, an area of 1.5 square kilometer (0.6 square miles) is entirely covered with bombets in a single Iskander missile.
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According to the Ukrainian media on Sunday, April 13, Ukrainian media reports have targeted a Ukrainian army ceremony to be held in a government establishment in the center of the city.
Hundreds of bombs have saturated all around the base, including the campus of the State University of Sumy and three streets of the lively city.
Passers -by, motorists, families walking on the sidewalks, faithful and passengers of a public transport bus were affected. The final toll of the victims was killed 35 Ukrainians, including two children, and 119 injured, including 15 children.
The Ukrainian reprisals strike intervened on Wednesday. Since the launch of a strategic bombing of targets in Russia in early 2023, long -range drone strike planners have mainly attacked large military infrastructure that is difficult to repair quickly, such as fuel bases and ammunition deposits.
Smaller and more difficult targets to reach such as military barracks or warships have been targeted less often, and when strikes have been launched, precision guidance weapons such as the Made-USA Atacms missile or shadow cruise missiles of the British / British / British storm were used to make them. Wednesday’s attack on the 112nd guards missile brigade, using drones, was a change in Ukrainian tactics.
Ukrainian drones, according to reports, were a aircraft of a tail robot the size of a large motorcycle called An-196 Liutyi. Between six and twelve years struck at 3 am in a village in the Tula region called Shuya. Residents were downloaded from social media images of explosions in and around the attachment base of the 112nd brigade of Russian guards missiles. The downloaded images have violated the Russian law on the creation of information sensitive to the public, but continued throughout the day. The content seemed to confirm seven explosions on the ground.
At least two of the Ukrainian drones stole almost for Moscow and then turned to the west to attack an unexpected direction, Ukrainian military information platforms reported.
A second wave, made according to some 2.5 -meter -long reports (8.2 feet long), tail drones called Bobr, struck about five hours later, at 8 am. However, a video showed Liutyi drones making the second wave hit.
The governor of Tula, Dmitry Milyaev, in an official declaration later in the day, said that all the Ukrainian drones had been killed and that there was no damage, saying to taxpayers: “The situation is under control.” A later declaration from his office admitted that Glass had been broken in certain buildings.
Russian social media images of the scene have contradicted the official Milyaev line, showing fire storage buildings and with broken walls. A video published by the Ukraine Unian press agency, allegedly recorded, because the drones hit the 112nd brigade, showed soldiers using coarse language and covered in a damaged barracks building.
The General Staff of the Army of Ukraine (AGS) took responsibility for the attack and confirmed that it was reprisals for the Russian Sumy strike.
“The UAV” pleasant “from Ukraine attack the city of Shuya in the Ivanovo Oblast. This houses the 112nd missile brigade, which was involved in the attack on Sumy on Sunday from Palm.
The Russian geo-tenants of the independent ASTRA news agency concluded that at least three warehouses containing Iskander parts and warheads had brought their rooftops and that the barracks and the training rooms have undergone serious damage.
According to Russian social media and images captured by the Overwatch Satellite Overwatch network, managed by NASA, fires burned in the basic premises throughout the day. The geo-localization group of the Ukrainian opening Kiberboroshno reported that he had confirmed at least three strokes and damage to a seat building and a training center.
Around 3 a.m. Thursday, almost exactly 24 hours after the first strike, another wave of Lityi drones penetrated Russian aerial defenses and exploded around the barracks and storage buildings of the 112nd brigade of rockets of guards in Shuya.
The social media images recorded on the engine of the propeller are similar to Ukrainian attack drones and the characteristic blow of the detonations of the warhead. Explosions and fires were visible near the military base, according to this information.
The Russian followed by Ukrainian social media by noon on Thursday was filled with burning fire images inside the geolo -featured buildings in the 112nd Russia Guard Rocket Brigade. The general staff of the Ukrainian army said Thursday that the last strike had targeted and struck weapon storage deposits, barracks and training buildings, modular shelters for equipment and staff, a basic transformer’s sub-station and a basic water tower. The video recorded at sunrise has shown that fires were still burning.
Local Russian officials have canceled direct attendance at the school, ordered distance lessons and reported that all Ukrainian drones had been slaughtered and that nothing in Shuya had suffered significant damage.
