Militants deployed record number of Grads at contact line, - Defense Intelligence

A record number of multiple rocket launchers of pro-Russian militants is registered near the demarcation line in the east of Ukraine.

Defense Intelligence spokesperson Vadym Skibitskyi said at a briefing, Censor.NET reports referring to Ukrinform.

"The enemy continues accumulating multiple launch rocket systems near the contact line. This year's record number of BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers has been registered this week, namely 60 units, which is almost twice as many as last week," Skibitskyi said.

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According to him, multiple rocket launchers have been spotted in the occupied territories of both the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"In addition to the facts of arrival of multiple rocket launchers, recorded on satellite images in the vicinity of Antratsyt, Makiivka, and Miusynsk, reactive systems have also been found in the area of Azov, Horlivka, Donetsk, Yenakiieve, Nyzhni Biriuky, Pervomaisk, Starobesheve, Stakhanov, Tsentralne, and Yasynuvata," Skibitskyi added.

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