With US OK, Ukraine Hits Russia's Belgorod in Massive Rocket Attack https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-biden-missiles/2024/06/02/id/1167133/?ns_mail_uid=6027034f-006f-40ef-b94b-fe4719b97a24&ns_mail_job=DM631659_06022024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0101027mqpov After gaining approval from the Biden administration, Ukraine reportedly used U.S. High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to hit targets in the Russian city of Belgorod, 20 miles north of the Russia-Ukraine border in southern Russia. “This is a welcome step that will allow us now to better protect Ukraine and Ukrainians from Russian terror and attempts to expand the war,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote right before the attack, Forbes reported. The onslaught included potentially dozens of 660-pound rockets, each ranging as far as 57 miles with 50 pounds of high explosives, raining on Belgorod, according to the Forbes report. State media claimed air-defense batteries shot down 14 rockets, and there is some evidence of rocket fragments on the ground, Forbes and other reports indicated. It’s unclear how much damage the raid inflicted — and, more to the point, how much damage it inflicted on military targets. Other independent military observers confirmed the use of HIMARS. "Pieces of Guided-Multiple Launch Rocket System (GM

🅲🆁🅸🆂🅸🆂 Russian artillery destroyed a stronghold occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported, citing Russia's Ministry of Defense. The strike also neutralized an AFU "electronic warfare station," after Russian drone crews relayed the location of the camouflaged Ukrainian stronghold to a Russian artillery crew that promptly fired 120-millimeter high-explosive fragmentation shells upon the target. The report provided no information on the number of Ukrainian casualties.

Russian troops shelled an underground command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Avdiivka region on Tuesday, TASS reported, citing the country's Ministry of Defense. "Servicemen of the artillery unit of the Center group of troops destroyed the equipment and command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using Krasnopol-M2 high-precision ammunition," the ministry stated. The report provided no information on the number of Ukrainian casualties.

Russian forces destroyed several deployment zones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kherson region on Thursday, TASS reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. The assault, led by Russian crews manning 152-mm towed howitzers, resulted in the destruction of temporary deployment points utilized by the AFU on the right bank of the Dnieper. Artillery fire also caused a "large" number of Ukrainian military casualties, according to the ministry.

Special Military Operation Zapad Group of Forces' 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews destroy AFU supply point Kupyansk direction In Kupyansk direction, reconnaissance units using an unmanned aerial vehicle found a camouflaged AFU supply point and transmitted the coordinates to the artillery command post for further destruction. Soldiers of the howitzer division of the artillery crew of the Zapad Group of Forces destroyed an identified target with fire from 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer. The objective control footage obtained from the UAV verified the successful engagement of the identified target. -Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation-

Artillery of the 2nd Revolutionary War! Smart Buzzbombs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy03UVxfxqg

What we always feared when I was serving along the DMZ. https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/north-korea-kim-sister-artillery-firings-tensions/2024/01/07/id/1148567/

05.10.2023: Russian artillery hits grocery store in Kharkiv region killing 50 people.

J.Biden 💵 V.Zelensky United States President Joe Biden he confirmed the US will provide a $325 million package of military assistance, including more artillery, ammunition, and anti-tank weapons. He said the US will also focus on Ukraine's air defense, such as a second Hawk air defense battery "with steady delivery of Hawk and other systems through the winter" and a new package of launchers and interceptors. (Forward, to the last Ukrainian)

ARMENIA | Caucasus, region between Asia and Europe YEREVAN, Armenia 🇦🇲 (AP) — Azerbaijan’s forces opened fire Tuesday on Armenian positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in what it called an “anti-terrorist operation,” and ethnic Armenian officials reported at least two civilians were killed and 23 wounded amid heavy artillery fire around the region’s capital.