The Russian Defense Ministry has released more videos showing the destruction of Western-donated weapons used by Kiev during its incursion in Kursk Region.
Two US-made Stryker infantry fighting vehicles were hit by Lancet loitering munitions in the Russian border areas where fighting is taking place, according to the ministry.
One of the clips showed a military vehicle hidden in a small forest. A kamikaze drone is shown approaching it and blowing it up, with a cloud of smoke rising to the sky towards the reconnaissance drone filming the engagement.
The second video released hours later shows what appears to be several military vehicles on a rural dirt road. A Lancet then hits one of them, causing a massive explosion. Another vehicle, which was parked meters away, then accelerated away from the obliterated IFV.
The US has long claimed that it was supplying weapons to Ukraine on the condition that they would not be used inside what Washington and Kiev recognize as Russian territory, including Kursk Region.
After the operation was launched last week, the US government said Ukraine was not breaching the agreement. Similar statements of endorsement came from other Western nations.
Moscow has described the Ukraine conflict as a US-initiated proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainian soldiers serve as ‘cannon fodder’. As of Wednesday, Ukrainian forces have suffered up to 2,300 casualties and have lost scores of armored vehicles and other heavy weapons in Kursk Region, according to Russian military estimates.