MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. Russia’s Battlegroup Center hit Ukrainian manpower and weapons in the Krasnoarmeisk area in the Donetsk People’s Republic with the use of an Uragan multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), the Russian defense ministry said.
"The crew of an Uragan multiple launch rocket system of the Battlegroup Center struck an area of the deployment of Ukrainian troops and weapons, as well as a munitions depot in the Kresnoarmeisk area," it said.
Uragan is designed to destroy troops and armor, artillery, missile complexes, command posts, communication hubs and infrastructure. The long-range 220mm weapon can fire single shots and a full salvo from 16 tubes at targets on a territory of 40 hectares at a distance of 35 kilometers.