Lasar’s Group Soldiers Destroy a Russian Smerch MLRS in Kherson Region With Drones

Soldiers of the Lasar’s Group special forces unit of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed a Russian BM-30 Smerch MLRS by means of drone bombardment.

The video of the destruction of the enemy MLRS was released by Operational Command South.

Russian invaders used this missile system to attack Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.

Initially, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance detected the launch of missiles from the BM-30 Smerch and tracked its movement across the temporarily occupied territory.

Judging by the video, after the Russian MLRS was discovered, an FPV drone flew there first, followed by a bomber drone.

“The other day, attack drones and aerial reconnaissance of the Lasar’s Group unit destroyed a BM-30 Smerch in the operational zone of the Operational Command South in the Kherson region at a range of almost fifty kilometers,” the statement reads.

After several munitions from the drone hit the missile container, the rockets inside detonated. A powerful explosion and a massive fire completely destroyed the Russian Smerch.

Analysts of the CyberBoroshno community found out from the video footage that the enemy MLRS was destroyed in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, at a distance of about 33 kilometers from the front line.

Losses of Smerch MLRS

This is the third recorded destruction of the Russian Smerch MLRS during the full-scale war with Ukraine, according to the OSINT project Oryx.

The invaders lost the first such system in the fall of 2022 in the Kharkiv region.

The second Smerch was destroyed the following year. The video of the destruction was published in September 2023.

Developed in the USSR, the BM-30 Smerch system can use 300-mm missiles with a monobloc high explosive or cluster warhead to fire at a range of up to 70 kilometers. At the same time, Russia has developed high-precision 300-mm guided missiles for this MLRS, which are already capable of hitting targets at a distance of 120 kilometers.