Ukraine's Marine Unit Uses Grad Rockets Against Russia | Russia Vs Ukraine War Update | News18 LIVE

Ukraine's Marine Unit Uses Grad Rockets Against Russia | Russia Vs Ukraine War Update | News18 LIVE

A Ukrainian marine unit fired 'Grad' rockets near Marinka, a suburb of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, on Tuesday (February 7).

The commander of the Soviet-era 'Grad' rocket battery, Ievhen, told Reuters that Russian troops were attempting to storm Ukrainian positions near Marinka.

"They storm in small infantry groups, trying to creep in further and further. Even without previous artillery strikes (on Ukrainian positions)," he said.

Ukraine said on Tuesday the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian troops, as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east bringing tens of thousands of freshly mobilised troops to the battlefield.

The Ukrainian claim could not be independently verified and Russia has also claimed to have killed large numbers of Ukrainian troops in recent weeks. Tallies of enemy casualties from either side have typically been seen as unreliable, and Kyiv offered few details of the latest battles.

But the assertion that the fighting was the deadliest so far fits descriptions from both sides of an escalating campaign of close contact trench warfare, which has left snow-covered battlefields of eastern Ukraine littered with corpses.

The war is soon entering its second year at a pivotal juncture, with Moscow attempting to regain the initiative while Kyiv holds out for Western tanks to mount a counter-offensive later in 2023.

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Stunning Rockets? Since when did CNN become cheerleaders and war mongors?