🔥 Destruction

Ukrainian forces used Russian reporter Aleksandr Kots' live broadcast to locate a Russian 240mm Tulpan heavy mortar system and destroyed it with artillery after it relocated to avoid counter-battery fire.

Popasna, Luhansk
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Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent UNIAN Censor.NET

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Ukrainian Armed Forces (military_unit) Aleksandr Kots (person) Tulpan mortar (weapon_system) Russian Armed Forces (military_unit) National Guard of Ukraine (military_unit) Rapid Reaction Brigade (military_unit) 24th King Daniel Brigade (military_unit) Tulpan (weapon_system) Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (organization) Russian military (military_unit) Siverskyi Donets (location) Artillery (weapon_system) Bilhorivka (location) Serhii Haidai (person) Lysychansk (location) Novodruzhesk (location) Zolote (location) Nyrkove (location) Sievierodonetsk (location) Mykolaivka (location) Katerynivka (location) Hirske (location) Kanamat Botashev (person) Su-25 (weapon_system) Russian forces (military_unit) Institute for the Study of War (organization) Pion (weapon_system) Giatsint (weapon_system) Russian Federation (organization) Russian 80th Separate Airmobile Brigade (military_unit) Igla MANPADS (weapon_system) Stinger MANPADS (weapon_system) Serhiy Haidai (person) Russian Air Force (military_unit) Severodonetsk (location) Os Kolynivka (location) Purdivka (location) Shchedrivshe (location) Smolyaninove (location) Russian Airborne Troops (military_unit) Pion self-propelled gun (weapon_system) Luhansk region (location) ISW (organization) Luhansk Oblast (location) Hulyaipole (location) Pion self-propelled howitzer (weapon_system) Russian Aerospace Forces (military_unit) Ukrainian Air Force (military_unit) Russian Paratroopers (military_unit) Air Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) Orlan-10 drone (weapon_system) ZALA UAS (weapon_system) Ukrainian Defense Forces (military_unit) 3rd Company of the 80th Separate Assault Brigade (military_unit) Stinger MANPAD (weapon_system) National Guard Rapid Response Brigade 3018 (military_unit) National Guard special forces (military_unit)

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Ukrainian forces used Russian reporter Aleksandr Kots' live broadcast to locate a Russian 240mm Tulpan heavy mortar system and destroyed it with artillery after it relocated to avoid counter-battery fire.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Russian forces attempted to break through defenses near Luhansk and struck Vrubivka and Bakhmut.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russian forces are intensifying efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Russian troops are attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses to reach the administrative border of Luhansk Oblast.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Analysts from ISW report that Russian forces intend to start a new offensive to occupy northern Kherson Oblast and advance toward Zaporizhzhia.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

In the Lyman direction, the enemy fired on the settlements of Lyman, Zakitne, Ozerne, and Dibrova and continued to fire on the positions of units of the Defense Forces.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.571Z

Source story: day-89a-2023-02-11