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Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) says a special operations detachment known as the “Ghosts” has carried out a series of attacks on Russian air-defense systems in the Donbas over the past two weeks, destroying multiple high-value pieces of equipment and inflicting casualties. The statement, released by HUR, said the unit “systematically” targeted Russian air-defense emplacements and in the most recent operations struck two 48Ya6-K1 “Podlet” radar units and a 9A82 launcher belonging to an S-300V complex. The 48Ya6-K1, often called Podlet-K1 in open sources, is a mobile three-coordinate S-band air-surveillance radar developed for use with modern Russian long-range air-defense systems. It is intended to detect low- and very low-altitude targets across a wide azimuth and to provide targeting data to S-300 and S-400 family systems. The 9A82 is the tracked TELAR (transporter/erector/launcher/radar) autonomous engagement vehicle associated with the 9M82 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) version (NATO: SA-12B “Giant”) within the S-300V family. The S-300V series was developed to protect fronts and key formations against aircraft, cruise missiles and tactical ballistic missiles; its launcher vehicles carry large interceptors designed for theater-level air-defense tasks. HUR added that the strike also eliminated a group of Russian soldiers and destroyed the KamAZ military truck they were traveling in. The agency’s statement reiterated standard wartime language — “The armed struggle continues”, and closed with the patriotic exhortation “Glory to Ukraine.” HUR also published a video of the operation set to a Ukrainian patriotic song; the footage, circulated by the agency on its channels, shows a targeting reticle and approaching a target, followed by an impact and explosion. Kyiv Post was unable to independently verify the time and location of the footage. On Monday HUR has released a video showing the killing of Lt. Vasily Marzoyev, a Russian officer and the son of a senior commander accused of war crimes in Ukraine. According to a report on Telegram, on Oct. 15, a combined UAV detachment from the HUR’s Department of Active Operations identified the position of Russian drone operators near Plavni, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Zaporizhzhia. “A guided aerial bomb successfully flew according to the coordinates obtained by the scouts – to neutralize the Russian killers,” the statement said. HUR reported that Marzoyev was at the position at the time of the strike. The agency added that the video contains “exclusive footage of the destruction of Vasily and other Russian invaders by the KAB [glide bomb].”
