{"id":187984,"date":"2025-06-16T03:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187984\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T03:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:37:09","slug":"russian-troops-are-lobbing-chemical-rockets-in-eastern-ukraine-now-ukrainian-drones-are-targeting-the-caustic-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187984\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Troops Are Lobbing Chemical Rockets in Eastern Ukraine. Now Ukrainian Drones Are Targeting the Caustic Munitions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian troops are firing chemical-laden rockets in eastern Ukraine. Now Ukrainian troops are deliberately targeting the launchers.<\/p>\n<p>Kriegsforscher, a Ukrainian drone operator apparently deployed near Pokrovsk on the eastern front, reported the destruction of a BM-21 rocket launcher belonging to the Russian army\u2019s 283rd Artillery Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>A BM-21 fires 40 122-millimeter rockets out to a distance of 32 miles. Normally, the rockets each carry a 41-pound high-explosive warhead. But now some Russian launchers are firing rockets with chemical payloads.<\/p>\n<p>The BM-21 Kriegsforscher helped blow up\u2014apparently by pinpointing its location for artillery\u2014\u201cwas loaded with rockets, which, in addition to the combat component, also contained chemicals,\u201d Kriegsforscher <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OSINTua\/status\/1934289591852298344\" rel=\"\">explained<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The rusty brown smoke billowing from the BM-21 as it exploded was a dead giveaway. Nitrogen-based chemical agents including nitric acid burn brown when struck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assume they wanted to neutralize our infantry,\u201d the drone operator added. \u201cThat\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve seen this kind of tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian troops are firing chemical-laden rockets in eastern Ukraine. Now Ukrainian troops are deliberately targeting the launchers. Kriegsforscher,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-187984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690958537276668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}