As of: March 30, 2024, 5:05 p.m
By: Sandra Kathe
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Even against some modern Russian weapons systems, the inferior Ukrainian armed forces can apparently still prevail. (Symbolic photo) © Genya Savilov/AFP
A video is said to show the destruction of a rare, newly developed Russian weapons system. Another setback for the Russian attack.
Kiev - A modern self-propelled artillery system called 2S40 Floks was supposed to advance the Russian offensive in the Ukraine war since last fall. Now social media videos show Ukrainian forces seemingly effortlessly destroying one of the mortar systems with a drone. The video was first distributed by Ukrainian activist Serhii Sternenko on the short message services Telegram and X (formerly Twitter).
In a text on The weapon system developed in the Urals is nicknamed the “Russian archer” and combines the advantages of a mortar and howitzer, the US newspaper
Newsweek
reported on this basis .
New 2S40 Floks mortar system: Hit on the second day after delivery
But instead of achieving the desired result, according to Sternenko, the first of the 2S40 Floks weapon systems was damaged “on the second day after dispatch,” and Ukrainian units recently destroyed another with a drone near Bakhmut. According to information from the Ukrainian military activist, only a few 2S40 Floks were delivered to the Russian units in Ukraine.
Despite numerical superiority, Russian losses have been heavy since the start of the war of aggression against Ukraine. Ukraine's military leadership also regularly reports high Russian losses in weapons systems and equipment. According to
Newsweek,
the authority recently reported
on the destruction of a Soviet-era RBU-6000 Smerch-2 anti-submarine weapon.
War in Ukraine: Major losses despite Russian superiority
Although the Ukrainian troops suffered further setbacks in the Ukrainian war with the losses in places like Avdiivka this winter, the much smaller army is still asserting itself in places against the Russian superiority. The Ukrainian news site
Ukrayinska Pravda
recently reported
the shooting down of a Kh-59 missile and several drones.
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