Drone footage shows Russian positions in the east hit by Ukrainian artillery

Record ID: 1717121

  • Title: Drone footage shows Russian positions in the east hit by Ukrainian artillery
  • Date: 24th March 2023
  • Summary: NEAR KREMINNA, LUHANSK REGION, UKRAINE (MARCH 24, 2023) (REUTERS) UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS FIRING TRF1, 155MM FRENCH TOWED HOWITZER HOWITZER BARREL VARIOUS SOLDIERS LOADING HOWITZER BARREL, SHELL BEING FIRED
  • Embargoed: 7th April 2023 16:56
  • Keywords: French TRF1 artillery Kreminna Russian positions Ukraine artillery brigade frontline
  • Location: NEAR KREMINNA, LUHANSK REGION, UKRAINE
  • City: NEAR KREMINNA, LUHANSK REGION, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001002624032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Ukrainian troops at an artillery position in a lush pine forest near the city of Kreminna in the eastern Luhansk region fired 155 mm rounds from a French TRF-1 howitzer towards a highway used as a supply road for the Russian-held stronghold of Kreminna.
    As orders came in with coordinates, the crew rushed to their positions around the gun, removed camouflage, aimed, loaded, and fired. After three rounds, they lowered the barrel, covered it back up, and went back to bunkers in the forest to await further orders. Artillery and small arms fire could be heard in the distance.
    Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's east on Friday (March 24), pressing on with their offensive despite assertions from Kyiv that Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.
    Front lines in Ukraine have barely budged since November, despite intense fighting. Ukraine recaptured swathes of territory in the second half of 2022 but has since kept mostly to the defensive, while Russia has assaulted hundreds of thousands of freshly called-up reservists and convicts recruited from prison as mercenaries.
    As the winter turns to spring, the main question in Ukraine is how much longer Russia can sustain its major offensive, and when or if Ukraine can reverse the momentum with a counterassault now in the planning.
    (Production: Vlad Smilianets, Anna Dabrowska)
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