Ministry of Defense: Su-34 protected foreign mercenaries in Kharkiv region with guided bombs

MOSCOW, May 8 – RIA Novosti. The head of the press center of the Zapad troop group, Colonel Sergei Zybinsky, told RIA Novosti that the Russian Su-34 front-line bomber hit the foreign mercenary station with guided bombs near the village of Ivanovka (Kharkiv region).

“The crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber, using universal modules for planning and correcting aerial bombs, struck the temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe village of Ivanovka,” the official said. the actions of a group of soldiers in the Kupyansk direction.

The universal planning and correction module connects to a conventional free-falling bomb, making it controllable. The module has folding wings and rudders and a control system that directs the bomb to the target in automatic mode. For example, with the help of such a module, a conventional FAB-500 grenade becomes quite accurate.

“In the Kupyansk direction, the soldiers of the Zapad troop group discovered and destroyed in one day two enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from the 14th separate mechanized brigade and the 103rd separate territorial defense brigade, and also blocked three rotation attempts,” said Zybinsky. In the settlements of Timkovka, Kislovka, Novomlynsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are at the forefront.”

Also, according to the head of the press center, in the Veliky Burluk residential area, a special-purpose group discovered and destroyed a combat vehicle belonging to the Osa anti-aircraft missile system using Lancet mobile ammunition.

During a counter-battery battle, a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer was destroyed by fire from an Msta-S self-propelled artillery mount near the Shevtsov Yar burrow.