Ukrainian Armed Forces Destroyed Enemy ‘Gvozdika’, While Russian Propaganda Boasted About Its Activity
- 5.10.2023, 13:03
Dozens of invaders were also eliminated.
In one of the directions, Ukrainian defenders destroyed a lot of enemy equipment, in particular, the Gvozdika cannon, and dozens of invaders.
As UNIAN reports with a reference to the press service of the Southern Defense Forces, 32 occupiers were liquidated over the past 24 hours. Five guns and the same number of armored vehicles, a boat and a field supply point for the occupiers were also destroyed.
In addition, the Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit, a Soviet 122-mm unit designed to destroy manpower, artillery batteries, bunkers, as well as to provide passages in minefields and field obstacles, was converted into scrap metal.
According to the press service, over the past 24 hours the enemy carried out four air strikes, using 22 guided bombs.
“As a result of attacks on the settlements of Mykolaivka, Olhivka, Odradokamyinka in the Kherson region and in the direction of the settlement of Vilkove in the Odesa region, one building was destroyed and three were damaged. There are no casualties among the population,” the message says.
During the day the enemy carried out more than 60 artillery attacks using about 400 shells, including 5 attacks on the settlements of Kherson and Sadove. As a result, a civilian was injured and up to 10 private houses were destroyed and damaged.
It is also reported that the enemy’s naval group is now deployed in the amount of 11 ships: 9 in the Black Sea and 2 in the Azov Sea. On combat duty is a surface launch vehicle equipped with up to 8 “Kalibr” missiles.
According to the Ukrainian Navy, as of 7.30 Thursday, October 5, the launch vehicle was in the Sea of Azov. Another “Kalibr” carrier was in the Mediterranean Sea.
Which “Gvozdika” was destroyed in the south — details
Serial production of the 2S1 “Gvozdika” began at the Kharkiv Tractor Plant named after Ordzhonikidze since 1971, and lasted until the early 90s of the twentieth century.
The memorandum to the Minsk Protocol provided for the withdrawal of 122-mm howitzers (D-30 and 2S1 “Gvozdika”) to 16 km from the contact line, and the “Package of Measures” in pursuance of the Minsk agreements of February 12, 2015 provided for the creation of a security zone 50 km wide for artillery systems with a caliber of 100 mm and more. But that did not happen. Already in June 2015, Russian militants posted photographs of the Gvozdika battery near the Novoazovsk wind power plant on social networks. These self-propelled guns were hidden near the village of Khreshchatytske, and fired at the Ukrainian military, most likely in the Shyrokyne area, where fierce fighting was then taking place.
According to the Information Resistance group, it was from the 122-mm D-30 and 152-mm 2A65 Msta-B that the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant was fired upon on May 23, 2015 — more than 40 shells exploded on its territory.
During the fighting in the Kherson region in August 2022, Russian propagandists boasted that some Russian artillerymen fired so intensely from the 2S1 that the barrel “melted” (and exploded with the rest).
The day before, Ukrainian defenders in the south liquidated 17 invaders. They destroyed a tank, guns, two vehicles, and three boats. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also wiped out the invaders’ field ammunition depot and the Giatsint-S self-propelled artillery mount.