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Ukrainian defenders destroy Russian Tor SAM with HIMARS and share footage

Ukrainian defenders destroy Russian Tor SAM with HIMARS and share footage Photo: Ukrainian defenders destroyed a TOR man-portable air defense system (illustrative photo by Facebook.com/Russian Defense Ministry)
Author: Liliana Oleniak

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, soldiers of the active operations unit of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine together with HIMARS operators discovered and destroyed a launcher of the Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system, according to Ukrainian intelligence.

According to the agency, the work of the missile launcher was corrected by the PD-2 unmanned system, which was funded by Ukrainians.

The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine thanked the citizens for making such operations possible and announced that they would continue.

"There will be more!", the intelligence notes.

Russian equipment destruction

Earlier, the DIU's active operations unit eliminated a Russian Strela 10 surface-to-air missile system at the front. The destruction took place on the day of the Russian Air Defense Forces.

Also, the Security Service of Ukraine destroyed a batch of Russian air defense systems at the front. In particular, the Russians lost two Buk missile systems of various modifications and one Buk target detection station, two TOR-M2, Strela-10, and Tunguska.