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Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine

Up to 500 ‘drop-and-forget’ bombs containing foreign components being fired every week, government analysis finds

According to a Ukrainian government report obtained by the Guardian, such weapons fired from afar by aircraft “played a key role in the destruction of [the eastern city of] Avdiivka and the seizure of its ruins by Russia”. The freefalling Soviet design bombs used by the Russian military are being easily transformed into guided ones by adding a UMPC “planning and correction module”, cheap wings and satellite navigation systems. On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, while on a two-day visit to Beijing, increased that anxiety by claiming that the two countries had agreed to discuss ways to deepen their security cooperation.

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