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On June 8, videos documenting recent combat operations by the Russian military in several directions within the special military operation zone were posted to social networks.
Seven of the videos show attacks with FPV suicide drones. The attacks targeted everything, from Ukrainian troops, to positions and equipment, in Donetsk, Sumy and other directions. The attacks took down several Baba Yaga armed drones and destroyed several Western-made weapons, including International MaxxPro and Roshel Senator armored vehicles.
Two additional videos show recent Lancet loitering munitions strikes that destroyed a P-18 aerial surveillance radar in Sumy and a 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer in the direction of Dnipropetrovsk.
Other videos show two recent airstrikes with UMPK-equipped guided glide bombs that targeted a river crossing in the Kharkiv direction and a large gathering of Kiev forces in Dnipropetrovsk.
A salvo of TOS-1A heavy thermobaric rockets is seen hitting Ukrainian posts near the settlement of Novopavlovka in the Zaporizhzhya direction in the last video.
Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced in its daily briefing that recent missile and drone strikes inflicted damage on “ a drone production workshop and storage areas, the training centre for UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] pilots, ammunition depots, temporary deployment areas of AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] units and foreign mercenaries” in 139 areas over the last 24 hours.
Russian air defenses also shot down 131 fixed-wing drones, including 73 outside the special military operation zone, according to the ministry.
According to the Russian MoD, Kiev forces have lost 663 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 62,255 drones, 610 air defense systems, 23,816 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,571 multiple rocket launchers, 25,880 artillery pieces, and 36,629 support vehicles since the start of the special military operation.
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