Abroad, a terrifying video is making the rounds on social media showing a barrage of thermobaric rockets fired from giant tos-1a launchers descending on Ukrainian positions. Russia has extensively used thermobaric weapons in its military operation in Ukraine. They are infamous for the widespread devastation they create due to their ability to pierce human organs, recent footage shared on a Russian telegram channel and by defense expert Roby Lee appears to have been captured by a Russian UAV drone. positions in the 10-second clip, about a dozen rockets can be seen hitting a small group of low-rise buildings reportedly in the eastern Don Bass region.
The tos-1a is a Soviet-era multiple launch rocket system. The surface-to-surface missile was first designed in the 1980s to strike four or five positions and destroy light armored vehicles. Thermobaric bombs, also called fuel-air bombs, are much more destructive than other conventional explosives. They work in two stages. When a charge is deployed, the first explosion sprays a highly flammable fuel vapor throughout the surrounding area. in a large explosion that unleashes a high-temperature fireball that absorbs oxygen in the surrounding area and creates a massive shock wave that can tear through bunkers and rupture internal organs at the same
time the fireball can melt away defenses and vaporize bodies caught near the explosion but, unlike cluster bombs, are not prohibited under international law as long as they are not used against civilians the use of TOS won a weapon system in Ukraine was first confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of Britain’s March bloody battle for the town of Bachman in Ukraine’s Danette region has seen Russian forces trying to advance on the bodies of their dead comrades, the head of U Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerie Zelusni said, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday that there was heavy fighting on the border of Svato Kramana in the oblast from Luhansk, as well as in the direction of Lyceikansk.
She said the hardest. the situation remains in the soul darbachment mayor scaria bachmann has been the scene of bitter fighting between russian and ukrainian forces the head of russia’s wagner mercenary group yevgeni prigason has admitted that his soldiers have been bogged down in the town some eight miles southeast of Solder and 16 miles north of Mayorks The Institute for the Study of Warfare said on Tuesday that Prigason had tried to blame the Russian Defense Ministry for problems his troops were having in making gains in the city, complaining of the lack of vehicles and ammunition in a foreign interview as well.
He said that he had his first phone conversation of 2023 with the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, whom he thanked for providing anti-aircraft systems. They discussed the changes in the operational and strategic environment mainly in the land spaces and Ukraine’s air strikes so lose me I added that since New Year’s Eve Russia had fired 14 missiles and 94 Iranian-supplied Kamikaze drones on Wednesday The general staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said 720 Russian soldiers had been killed over the previous day, bringing the death toll since the start of the war to 108,910, although Western estimates put this total much lower in their operational update.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Wednesday that over the previous day, Russian forces carried out 18 airstrikes and shelled 85 targets, these targeted civilian infrastructure in Chromatorsk Saporizi and Kirsten, while Russia’s Defense Ministry blamed to soldiers using cellphones over the Ukrainian missile attack that caused the biggest official loss of Russian troops in a single incident since the war began on Wednesday, the ministry raised the office The total death toll from the New Year’s Eve strike in machiavka in Donetsk all Blast went from 63 to 89. However, military bloggers have said the death toll was much higher and criticized Russian commanders for stationing troops in barracks located at a foreign vocational college.
