MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. An artillery crew of the Russian Novorossiysk airborne troops unit wiped out a Ukrainian mortar on the Dnieper right bank in the Kherson Region, the Russian defense ministry said.
"Having received necessary coordinates of a mortar section, the crew of a Giatsint-B 152mm artillery system delivered a strike and destroyed a Ukrainian mortar and its crew," the ministry said, adding that drone operators confirmed that the target was hit.
According to the ministry, the mortar was hidden in the debris of an abandoned residential house and conducted fire at Russian defensive positions. Apart from that, a munitions depot was organized in a cache near the house.