Russia strikes Ukraine with a new 3‑ton bomb, footage released
8:26 AM EDT, June 21, 2024
The Russians boast about using a powerful weapon. For the first time, they reportedly struck with a 3-ton bomb. Footage appeared on the internet.
Russian forces used a variant of the new FAB-3000 M-54 bomb with a Unified Planning and Correction Module (UMPC). The target was Ukrainian positions in the Kharkiv region. Footage of the attack surfaced online.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, this represents a new Russian capability with high destructive potential if Russian forces use such weapons without restrictions.
Russians used a new weapon. there is footage
The video shows that the Russians failed to hit the building precisely, but the explosion's force was enormous. The bomb missed the building by about 50 feet but still caused significant damage.
The Russians boast that in the Northern Military District zone towards Kharkiv, the FAB-3000 fragmentation and demolition aerial bomb, weighing over 3 tons, was used for the first time.
The bomb reportedly fell near the village of Lyptsy in the Kharkiv region.
Defense department reported the destruction of 114 Ukrainian drones
The Russian defense department reported that on the night from Thursday to Friday, the country's air defense neutralized 114 Ukrainian drones. Seventy were shot down over annexed Crimea, 43 in Krasnodar Krai, and one in the Volgograd region; one person was killed, according to AFP.
In recent months, there have been frequent strikes on Russian refineries. Reuters estimated that the processing capacity of these plants in Russia, taken offline in the first quarter of 2024 due to drone raids, was about 5 million tons of crude oil (averaging around 370,000 barrels per day), which was equivalent to approximately 7 percent of the processing capacity of all refineries in the country.
