Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the weapons were destroyed in the Zaporozhye region.
Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov claimed the successful strikes during an update to reporters on Saturday.
"As part of the counter-battery fight, two American M777 howitzers were destroyed in the area of Stepnogorsk, Zaporozhye region," he said, according to state news agencyIn May, the U.S. gave 90 of the field artillery pieces, which are used by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, to Ukraine.NATO-standard 155-millimeter shells, which is an improvement over Ukraine's 122 and 152-millimeter artillery pieces.
A soldier of the Spanish Army loads a M777 howitzer artillery cannon during live fire exercises at the Grafenwoehr military training grounds on May 19, 2021 near Grafenwoehr, Germany. Russia said on July 30, 2022 that it had successfully destroyed two of the systems supplied to Ukraine. They generally fire precision-guided Excalibur rounds that use the Global Positioning System to hit targets and Ukraine has hailed them for their precision and power.
Konashenkov also said on Saturday that Russian troops had destroyed Ukraine's Soviet-era multiple launch rocket systems, Giatsint-B and Uragan. This followed strikes in the towns of Kodema and Belaya Gora in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which Moscow backs.Russia has made a number of unverified claims about destroying Ukrainian weapons.
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