Soviet Artillery and U.S. Ammunition to Take a Key Mine Into Russia's Hands

At the beginning of 2025, Russian occupation troops took control of a coal mine crucial to the Ukrainian steel industry. This exploitation, located on the front of the disputed city of Pokrovsk (Donetsk region), is one of the main targets of 203-mm calibre artillery shells launched every day with their Soviet self-propelled systems 2S7 Pion members of the 43rd Ukrainian Artillery Brigade. Odin, the 23-year-old commander responsible for four of t…