This slick footage shows a Russian howitzer being loaded with shells, which it then discharges into the sky towards targets in Ukraine.
The 2S5 Giatsint-S howitzers seen in the video reportedly destroyed a unit of 155-mm M777 towed howitzers made in the United States and shipped to Ukraine.
Zenger News obtained the footage from the Ministry of Defense (MoD) of the Russian Federation earlier on Monday, May 23.
The Russian MoD said (in Russian): "Combat work of crews of 152-mm self-propelled howitzers 'Giatsint-S'."
The 2S5 Giatsint-S is a Soviet/Russian 152-mm self-propelled gun that has been in service since 1978 and is capable of firing nuclear projectiles.
It is operated by a handful of countries, including both Russia and Ukraine, though the former boasts several times more units than the latter.
The Russian MoD did not specify where in Ukraine the footage was filmed.
The Russian MoD reported earlier today that Ukraine had lost 177 aircraft, 125 helicopters, 990 unmanned aerial vehicles, 319 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,226 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 421 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,643 field artillery and mortars, and 3,106 units of special military vehicles over the course of the invasion thus far.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) gave corresponding figures for Russian losses as 1,293 tanks, 3,166 armored fighting vehicles, 604 artillery systems, 201 multiple launch rocket systems, 93 air defense systems, 204 warplanes, 170 helicopters, 476 tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, 110 cruise missiles, 13 warships, 2,206 other vehicles and fuel tankers, and 43 units of special equipment.
The AFU General Staff added that Russia had lost about 29,200 soldiers and officers over the same period.
Moscow did not provide corresponding figures for Ukrainian personnel losses.
The updates come as a court in Ukraine jails a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first trial for war crimes since the invasion began.
Captured soldier Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, was found guilty of killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the village of Chupakhivka on February 28.
Meanwhile, Russia is said to be intensifying efforts to capture the strategic eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk.
If it falls under Russian control, Russia and the so-called Luhansk People's Republic will control almost all of Luhansk Oblast.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what the Kremlin is now calling a "special military operation" to "protect Donbass".
May 24 marks the 89th day of the invasion.
