When a little black kitten was born at a frontline base in Kharkiv, the soldiers adopted it as their mascot, calling it “Stinger” after the feared shoulder-held missile that helped to defeat the Soviet army in Afghanistan. “It’s the only air defence we have here,” one of the men, codenamed “Hollywood”, explained.
Three decades on, Russian aircraft are equipped with new technology that scrambles the Stinger’s heat-seeking targeting system. “Now we have to fire two and hope that the second one will make it,” Hollywood said.
#Ukraine: A Russian BMP infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed by an ATGM of the 59th Ukrainian Motorized Brigade in Pisky, #Donetsk Oblast.
A second IFV can be seen immediately retreating. pic.twitter.com/fBuA78OwNl
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 20, 2023
