"Now the curators and sponsors of the criminal regime of Zelensky are investing in full, everything they can ... But it is already clear that these are elements of agony. Yesterday they used here, so to speak, the advertised millimeter cluster munition ... But they did not achieve a certain result. There is no expected effect of such ammunition for the enemy, I will say, "TASS quoted him as saying.
According to him, elementary, old-fashioned methods of fortification save from such shells completely.
"And armor protection. That is, [these munitions] are ineffective," he added.
According to the commander of the group, the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran out of 150-mm high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, and the limits of arsenals were exhausted.
Earlier, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the Ukrainian military fired at the village of Zhuravlyovka in the region with cluster munitions.