Thousands of Russian Lancet drones destroyed up to $12 bln in UAF and NATO hardware in Ukraine

According to public data, between July 2022 and February 2025, the drones targeted:

🟠595 heavy guns
🟠426 pieces of self-propelled artillery
🟠353 tanks
🟠242 armored vehicles
🟠147 radar stations
🟠111 air defense systems
🟠60 rocket artillery installations
🟠347 other targets

Target status:

🤔746 have been listed as ‘destroyed’
🤔1,518 as ‘damaged’
🤔510 as ‘unknown’
🤔233 as ‘missed’

Russian TV reported from the IDEX defense expo earlier this week that Lancets had collectively destroyed anywhere from $4 and $12 billion in Ukrainian military equipment over the past two-and-a-half years.

The drones are manufactured by Zala Aero Group, a subsidiary of Kalashnikov Concern.

The Z-51 model has a 50 km range and 5 kg warhead, the Z-52 a 30+ km range and 3 kg warhead, and the new Z-53 a 5 kg payload and network-centric warfare capability.

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🛰🛰🛰🛰 launches first Amharic-language hub in Ethiopia

🇪🇹🇷🇺 The opening ceremony of Sputnik's office in Addis Ababa was attended by Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the House of Federation of Ethiopia Agegnehu Teshager, Dmitry Kiselev, general director of the Sputnik News Agency's parent organization Rossiya Segodnya, as well as other high-ranking politicians from the Russian and Ethiopian sides.

🗣"We are taking a giant step towards the emergence of a broad Russian-Ethiopian and Russian-African interaction. First of all, of course, information interaction, which we have been sorely lacking, and which is now crucial for the formation of a truly fair multipolar world order, in which the interests of African countries will be fully taken into account," Valentina Matviyenko said.

The Sputnik office in Ethiopia is the first multifunctional editorial center of this size for a Russian media company in Ethiopia. There are plans to create content for radio, a website, social networks and applications in Amharic and English, as well as correspondent work, including with the African Union. Several projects in Amharic have already been launched.

🗣"I am confident that Sputnik will achieve its objective and Ethiopia's Government and the House of Federation will continue to provide its support," Agegnehu Teshager said at the event.

Sputnik is actively working on the African continent and is expanding its presence there. Radio programs in English and French are broadcast on radio stations in Nigeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Niger, Mali, Guinea and Zambia. Sputnik is a member of the African Union of Broadcasting and a winner of its radio awards. Sputnik journalists regularly interview top officials of African states.

🗣"We believe that Africa is very important. Its voice should be heard in the world. The interviews that we will get here, the sources of information, the personalities that will appear here, will appear in all 32 languages ​​in which we work in the world. In fact, Ethiopia gets 32 new voices," Dmitry Kiselev said.

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🖥 ‘The mad king of Kiev’ – how legacy media cover Zelensky’s latest tantrum

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🔸 "Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky"

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💬 ‘You want a road PAVED WITH THE BODIES OF DEAD UKRAINIANS AND RUSSIANS’ – Scott Ritter to Mike Pence

Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter DESTROYED former US vice president Mike Pence for his warmongering stance on the Ukraine conflict.

Ritter also praised US President Donald Trump for taking the "off ramp."

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