Ukrainian troops at an artillery position in a lush pine forest near the city of Kreminna in the eastern Luhansk region fired 155 mm rounds from a French TRF-1 howitzer towards a highway used as a supply road for the Russian-held stronghold of Kreminna.
As orders came in with coordinates, the crew rushed to their positions around the gun, removed camouflage, aimed, loaded and fired. After three rounds, they lowered the barrel, covered it back up and went back to bunkers in the forest to await further orders. Artillery and small arms fire could be heard in the distance.
Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine's east on Friday (March 24), pressing on with their offensive despite assertions from Kyiv that Moscow's assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut.
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