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In a series of exclusive interviews with Kyiv Post during January combat operations in the Bakhmut sector, soldiers and officers from one of Ukraine’s most secretive artillery units, the 107th Rocket Artillery Brigade, describe their experience learning to operate the M270, and using its precision-guided rockets to strike Russian army troop concentrations, headquarters and ammo dumps.

“We understand this is a big responsibility, and that we have an important role to play in the war,” commander Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Suprunyuk* says. “Every mission we carry out can have a decisive effect, and for many reasons we have no right to make a mistake.”

As the interview takes place, Suprunyuk and other Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) service personnel are in a clandestine position in a forest in the Bakhmut sector. Most soldiers remain out of sight in underground hides covered with pine needles. Meanwhile, supply vehicles come and go quickly,

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