A hundred Lancets, three hits and a blogger’s complaint

Military complaints often travel faster on Telegram than up the chain of command. In a recent Telegram post Pavel Gubarev, a pro-Russian figure from the occupied Donbas with a large following, wrote that a drone group from Russia’s Sparta unit had launched about 100 Lancet loitering munitions on one stretch of the front over three months from mid-June, and hit three targets: a self-propelled gun, an infantry dugout and a kiosk. The claim was reported by Militarnyi, the Ukrainian defence outlet, on 23 October.

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