Published: August 29, 2023 10:02 am
Author: RT
Artillery shells and up to ten hardware units were eliminated in the attack, Defense Ministry has said
The Russian Defense Ministry has made public a record of what it described as a successful strike on a Ukrainian military train carrying artillery munitions and weapons.
The video, published on Tuesday, shows aerial footage of a freight train and several clips of explosions and billowing smoke – thought to be the initial strike then the subsequent detonations of the cargo.
The report said a Russian reconnaissance unit had spotted the arrival of the military transport to its final destination somewhere along the Donetsk front line. A surface-to-surface missile was then used to hit it before it could be unloaded by Ukrainian soldiers.
Moscow claimed that some 30 Ukrainian troops as well as ten military vehicles were eliminated alongside the artillery shells brought to the station.
The Russian ministry of defense regularly reports hitting trains used by Ukrainian military to resupply its forces.
Last week it said an Iskander missile strike in Dnepropetrovsk Region killed more than 200 Ukrainian troops and destroyed ten military vehicles as they were being transported to the front line.
Earlier in August, it published video footage of an attack that reportedly destroyed a military train carrying munitions at a different location in the same Ukrainian region.
