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RUSSIA'S DEVASTATING NEW WEAPON HITS ENEMY POSITIONS IN WAR'S FIRST: VIDEO

By Ellie Cook,

2023-11-20

Russia has used modified cluster bombs as glide weapons against Ukrainian forces
in the south of the war-torn country for the first time, new footage and reports
appear to show.

In a clip widely circulating online, published on the Telegram messaging app by
a Russian channel thought to be linked to Moscow's military, what looks to be a
cluster munitions strike across the Ukrainian countryside shows dozens of almost
simultaneous explosions. However, there are few details available about the
footage, and it could not be independently verified by Newsweek .

The Russian Defense Ministry and the Ukrainian General Staff have been
approached for comment via email.

Russia's influential community of milbloggers reported on Sunday that Moscow's
troops had carried out a "large airstrike" with RBK-500 cluster bombs that had
been adapted to act as glide bombs in south Donetsk, the Institute for the Study
of War ( ISW ) said on Sunday.




The RBK-500 bombs were used against Ukrainian forces close to the Donetsk
village of Staromayorske, the ISW, a U.S.-based think tank, said. The
settlement, close to the border with the southern Zaporizhzhia region, was
retaken by Ukrainian forces in late July as Kyiv's counteroffensive collected
several villages from Moscow's grip.

The military bloggers claimed that this strike near Staromayorske was "the first
large Russian strike in Ukraine using this weapon with the glide bomb
modification," the ISW wrote in its latest analysis.



On Monday, Ukraine's General Staff reported a Russian attack near Staromayorske,
but said Moscow's forces had "no success." Also on Monday, Russia's defense
ministry said it had blocked a Ukrainian attempt to move units of forces around
Staromayorske and neighboring villages, including Rivnopil. Ukraine said it had
captured Rivnopil in late June.

On Sunday, Moscow had said it had stopped a Ukrainian counterattack around
Staromayorske as Kyiv tried to rotate troops near the village and the settlement
of Urozhaine.



Across the southern Donetsk front line, Ukraine lost 145 fighters in the past
day, Russia said in a statement on Monday. The Ukrainian General Staff told
Newsweek on Monday that it was unable to comment on these figures.

Open-source intelligence accounts had reported the use of RBK-500 cluster
munitions in Ukraine since the early days of the war. But Ukraine's air force
has sounded the alarm several times in recent months over Moscow's use of "glide
bombs," describing the weapons as a significant threat to Ukraine .

"W e have to urgently respond to it ," Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yuriy
Ignat said of Russia's FAB series of glide bombs back in April.

But the air-launched glide bombs can be fired outside of the range of many of
Ukraine's air defenses, meaning Russia can "use its bigger air force to hit
Ukrainian targets" and dodge Kyiv's surface-to-air missiles, military and
weapons expert David Hambling told Newsweek .



"This is important because so far Ukrainian air defenses have prevented Russian
aircraft from carrying out effective attacks," he said. But with glide bombs,
Russia can attack from further away and preserve its aircraft, he added.

Russia is known to have used 500-kilogram guided glide bombs in Ukraine, and
reports emerged earlier in Ukraine's fall season that Moscow had rolled out
upgraded "smart" glide bombs, including the 1,500-kilogram FAB-1500. Ukraine's
air force said back in April that Russia had been using the 500-kilogram FAB-500
across "the entire front line," and that there were "signs of preparation for
the mass use of 1,500 kg KABs."

Ukraine has also received guided bombs in aid packages from the U.S., including
the JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munitions), and the longer-range JDAM-ER. JDAM
kits create precision-guided "smart" munitions from unguided bombs, launched
from a variety of aircraft, much like the FAB series of bombs.



Update 11/20/23, 9:10 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional comment
from David Hambling.

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Nadine Henry
11-20
Newsweek, are you pro-putin? You call Ukraine the "enemy" ??? Let me give you a
correction and a fact check...The Sovereign Nation of Ukraine was illegally
invaded and illegally occupied by russia....how does that make Ukraine the
"enemy"? It doesn't.Newsweek, you are a pro-putin propaganda rag...
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Butchkowski
11-20
On the plus side my defense stocks are doing great. Good money to be made in
death 💀 Please note this is dark sarcasm
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