The Ukraine war is filled with examples of footage on social media of tanks and armored weapons being destroyed by both Moscow and Kyiv.
While some footage is more detailed and offers better clues as to who is winning the conflict than others, all of it collectively give us a sense of the sheer scale of this conflict.
And one thing is pretty clear: it won’t end anytime soon.
Watch Ukraine Destroy Russian Howitzer In Donetsk Oblast
Intense video footage shared on social media in recent days shows how Ukrainian counter-battery fire shatters a Russian howitzer into multiple pieces, leaving behind only a pile of dirt, debris, and fire.
The video footage, was shared by Ukraine’s 45th Separate Artillery Brigade and later reposted onto twitter by several war-tracking accounts.
One of those accounts, Ukraine Weapons Tracker, noted that the strike occurred in the north-western regions of Pidhorodne in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
“Counter-battery fire from the Ukrainian 45th Artillery Brigade destroyed a Russian D-30 122mm howitzer North-West of Pidhorodne, #Donetsk Oblast,” the account writes.
The video, recorded by a rotary-blade UAV, shows the Russian D-30 howitzer in the middle of an opening of a wooded area at the side of the road. The Ukrainian military identified the howitzer in the graphics overlaid in the video, before switching to a higher-altitude birds-eye shot of the area in which the howitzer was stationed.
The video then quickly cuts to a shot of the howitzer erupting into a ball of black smoke. Several additional shots show the enormous size of the explosion caused by the counter-battery fire, likely aided by the ignition of ammunition stored inside of the howitzer. The final shot shows the equipment left in tatters, with warped pieces of metal left on the ground.
It is unclear whether the howitzer was abandoned, or whether anybody was injured in the strike.
Child Killed In Residential Strike In Pidhorodne
On June 4, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration revealed how the body of a two-year-old child was recovered from the rubble of a house in Pidhorodne. In a Telegram post, Serhii Lysak described how strikes on the night of June 4 caused residential buildings to collapse, killing one children and injuring 22 people, including five children.
“At night, the body of a girl was recovered from the rubble of a house in Pidhorodne hromada. She had just turned 2 years old. Our sincere condolences to the family,” the Telegram post explained.
Lysak also noted that Russian strikes on the region caused substantial damage to private homes and apartment buildings, destroyed one car, and impacted gas pipelines in the area. Photographs shared in the post showed two-storey buildings flattened, leaving just huge piles of rubble.
#Ukraine: Counter-battery fire from the Ukrainian 45th Artillery Brigade destroyed a Russian D-30 122mm howitzer North-West of Pidhorodne, #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/1NQfzNTIGm
— ???????? Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 9, 2023
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