UKRAINE has eliminated dozens of Russian fighters after attacking their base with a US missile.
Aerial footage shows Ukrainian troops lining up to attack a huge group of Vladimir Putin’s forces in the eastern city of Luhansk.
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The images show the military training camp, about 78 kilometers behind the front line, being hit by multiple explosions.
More than 100 Russian soldiers are believed to have died in the attack after Ukraine launched a tactical ballistic missile (Army Tactical Missile Systems).
ATACMS bombarded training troops with hundreds of M74 APAM minibombs.
It is yet another humiliation for Putin after the UK claimed that 450,000 Russian soldiers were killed or injured in Ukraine.
That represents an average of 560 soldiers per day since he unleashed his bloodbath more than two years ago.
For the first time last month, Ukraine used £800,000 ATACMS after they were secretly sent by the US.
The long-range ballistic missiles were used for violent attacks on a military base in Crimea and on Russian forces in occupied Ukraine.
Last week, it was announced that Washington had discreetly sent ATACMS to Ukraine in recent weeks.
The tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missiles are equipped with a 500-pound warhead and can hit targets 300km away in just five minutes, three times the speed of the UK-supplied Storm Shadows.
The expensive weapons can be used for precision strikes on targets behind enemy lines in record amounts of time.
Ukraine had long tried to obtain some ATACMS, but the US had avoided providing them for fear they could be used to attack Russia.
The 3,700 km/h killer missiles give Ukraine almost twice the striking distance it had with the medium-range version of the weapon it received from the US last October.
And ATACMS can be launched by an M-142 Himars artillery rocket system, which is already in use on the battlefield.
Now Ukraine has used the deadly weapon in an attack on Russian forces in Luhansk.
The Institute for the Study of War said: “Geolocation imagery suggests that Ukrainian forces attacked a Russian training camp southwest of Mozhnyakovka, killing 116 Russian soldiers.”
And in another blow to Russian forces, a speculative video shows the moment Ukraine destroyed a launcher and loader from a Russian Buk complex with six missiles in the direction of Sumy.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the United States plans to send more long-range missiles to Ukraine.
He said: “They will make a difference. But as I have said before on this podium… there is no silver bullet.”
Former US general Ben Hodges hailed ATACMS for playing a “critical role in neutralizing Russia’s only advantage – mass, [being] many soldiers.”
Hodges, the former commander of US Army Europe, told The Sun they will have a “significant” effect on the battlefield.
“Now every square meter of Russian-occupied Ukraine is within ATACMS range… meaning every headquarters, logistics site, key weapons system and airfield in that area can be hit.
“Crimea may soon be untenable for the Russian navy and air force.”
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