A commander told Sky's Deborah Haynes that around 30% of Ukrainian successes in the east are thanks to British and German weapons. It was the first time they have been seen on film.
The commander said, in his opinion, around 30% of the successes achieved by Ukraine in a major counter-offensive in the east were thanks to British, as well as German, rocket launchers.
Hidden in a line of trees in the middle of sprawling fields, the dark green contraption - the size of a large pickup truck on a set of tracked wheels - was deliberately hard to find.Ukraine's limited number of long-range artillery pieces make them a prime target for Russia.They were just exhausted having worked through the night and into the day, conducting"fire missions" against Russian targets as part of a Ukrainian advance on the town of Lyman.We met the unit on 29 September.
Dotted around a steering wheel, control panel and computer screen was a tin can of bacon, a slumped rifle, even an air-freshener attached to a wire in a corner on the ceiling. Three soldiers operate the system, one giving commands, another ensuring the coordinates for the target are correct on the inbuilt computer panel and a third driving.
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