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On October 26, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff released a video on Facebook showing the destruction of a D-30 122mm howitzer operated by Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine. The strike was carried out using the Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2, an unmanned drone armed with an air-to-ground missile. While the strike destroyed the howitzer, it appears no one was injured, as two gunners can be seen running away after the explosion.Ukraine purchased several of these attack drones from Turkey. It plans to produce them under license, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced earlier this month.The drone’s use provoked a dramatic response from Russian officials, who criticized it as an escalation while continuing to deny Russia’s well-established involvement in the Donbas conflict.On October 28, Alexander Lukashevich, Russia’s permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), condemned the use of the drone. "The use of such vehicles is banned by the Minsk Agreements, the Russian state news agency TASS quote him as saying. "Also
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