The Ukrainian side is using residential areas and social facilities of cities to place artillery systems and fire on the Russian military, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. In the Vynohradar district on the outskirts of Kyiv, the Ukrainian military “hid behind residential buildings for several days and fired multiple rocket launchers at Russian servicemen,” he said. Konashenkov said that the Ukrainian military used the area of the nearby shopping center as a base for storing rocket-propelled ammunition, and reloaded multiple rocket launchers there.
“The video footage from objective control clearly shows how a Ukrainian multiple launch rocket launcher enters a shopping center on the outskirts of Kyiv for cover after another salvo and reloading missiles,” a Defense Ministry spokesman said. The MLRS battery and the storage base for their ammunition “in a non-functioning shopping center” were destroyed by a strike of precision weapons, he continued.
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