Thanks to US assistance, the number of Russian bombs launched has dropped from 80 to 4 per day

A Ukrainian soldier says that US assistance helped reduce the number of successful Russian guided missile attacks on his unit's positions in Krynky, on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

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Speaking to The Times, Major Serhiy Pedenko, deputy commander of the 503rd Battalion, 38th Marine Brigade, said that the number of bombs hitting their positions had dropped from 80 a day to four.

Over the past six months, Russia has been consistently hitting Ukrainian targets with bombs that can weigh more than 1,300 kg from Russian fighter-bombers such as the Su-34.

These relatively cheap projectiles are made by attaching wings and satellite navigation systems to Soviet-era bombs. This allows Russian bombers to launch them from safer distances. In March this year, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Russia's use of bombs is its "main advantage on the battlefield".

"We have destroyed two Russian divisions here. They need to knock us out, so they attack with armoured personnel carriers, which our drones destroy. We kill maybe 30 Russians here for every one we kill," Pedenko added, "They bomb and then come in, but our guys are still holding on, they fight, they push them back, and they can't understand it.

After gaining a foothold on the far bank of the Dnipro near Krynky last October, Ukrainian forces may have hoped to push deeper into Russian-occupied territory. However, a serious shortage of ammunition and equipment has allowed Russia to defend itself.

Source: The Times