Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) released new footage on Monday, Nov. 17, showing a series of precision strikes by its elite “Ghosts” special unit, which continues to dismantle Russian air-defense assets on the Donbas front.
According to HUR, operators of the “Ghosts” [Prymary] unit carried out several successful drone attacks over the past two weeks, targeting some of the most valuable components of Russia’s layered air-defense network.
Among the systems destroyed:
- a Tor-M1 short-range surface-to-air missile system
- a 55K6 command post belonging to an S-400 air-defense complex
- a 9S18M1-3 radar station used in the Buk-M3 missile system
HUR published video footage showing the drone strikes hitting the Russian positions with high precision, igniting secondary detonations and disabling key air-defense nodes that the Kremlin relies on to protect its forces and logistics hubs.
Kyiv Post couldn’t independently verify the video.
“The armed struggle continues,” HUR said in its statement, praising the unit’s effectiveness.
Last month, Kyiv Post reported that the “Ghosts” unit had carried out a series of attacks on Russian air-defense systems in the Donbas region over the previous 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.