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Russia Loses 16 Artillery Systems in One Day: Ukraine
Ellie Cook
5/4/23 5:06 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-artillery-losses-ukraine-military-aid-1798256
Russian forces fighting in Ukraine have lost 16 artillery systems in the past 24 hours, Kyiv said Thursday. A further three MLRS, or multiple launch rocket systems, were taken out over the previous day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces added.
Writing on Facebook, the General Staff said in its daily update that Russia has lost a total of 2,962 artillery systems since the start of full-scale war in February 2022.
On Wednesday, the Russian defense ministry said Ukraine had lost several howitzers, as well as updating the Kremlin count of reported Ukrainian losses to 4,717 field artillery cannons and mortars since February 24, 2022. On Tuesday,
Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said that in the past month Russia had destroyed 225 field artillery pieces and mortars used by Ukraine’s armed forces.
Artillery supplies and associated ammunition are key to both sides waging mechanized war, which is playing out across Ukraine’s battlefields.
“The war in Ukraine has become an artillery war,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in January.
On Wednesday, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War think tank said Russian artillery fire had continued in several regions of Ukraine, including the southern Kherson region and contested Luhansk Oblast.
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