U.S Just Did Something to END Russia’s WAR… Even Ukraine Didn’t Expect This

Putin must have thought he’d seen it all from  Ukraine.

But it’s only getting worse for Russia’s   soldiers on the battlefield.

The U.S.

built  one of the most powerful weapons in the world,   and Ukraine is now crushing Russia’s soldiers with  it.

Without any real fanfare, Ukraine has just   casually added one of the world’s most fearsome  artillery guns to its arsenal, and it has made all   of Russia’s weapons useless.

Ukraine itself never  expected this.

Russia had no idea it was coming.

But thanks to what the U.S.

created decades ago,  Ukraine now has a devastating weapon that it can   use to end Russia’s war.

The weapon in question is  the 203-millimeter M110 self-propelled howitzer,   which has been given to the 52nd Artillery  Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

That’s   according to United24 Media, which says that the  brigade itself has confirmed the arrival of the   weapon and noted that it is slotting in nicely  alongside domestically made Ukrainian artillery   that is shattering Russia’s spring offensive.

“Our  equipment includes the 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled
howitzer, RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket  systems, and the 203mm M110A,” the 52nd casually   announced in a social media post on April 2,  almost making the M110 seem like an afterthought.

It isn’t.

And you’re going to find out why the  arrival of this powerful artillery gun in Ukraine   is going to force a shift on the battlefield  very soon.

First, the question has to be asked:   How did Ukraine manage to get its hands on  M110 howitzers at all? This is a Cold War-era   weapon that the U.S.

military has officially  retired, so you would think that there should   be no chance that Ukraine could get it.

However,  a retired weapon doesn’t necessarily equate to an   obsolete one, and the origins of the M110s that  are now in Ukraine can be traced back to a deal   made in October 2025.

That’s when Army Recognition  reported that Greece had approved the transfer of   60 of its U.S.

-made artillery systems to Ukraine,  along with 150,000 of the shells the system needs   and some Zuni rockets in a deal believed to  be valued at €199.

4 million, or a little under   $230 million.

The artillery and ammo were set to  make their way to Ukraine via the Czech Republic,   and the systems would make their way to Ukraine  sans any modifications or refurbishment.

That may   make it seem like Greece was getting the better  of the deal, but that isn’t the case at all.

For   Ukraine, this deal meant that it was getting its  hands on a large number of artillery systems that   have long been a specter on the battlefield  for any force that has come up against it.

The M110 howitzer may not be modern or  ultra-clever.

But what it can do is deliver   massive amounts of firepower very quickly as  part of a war that, in many ways, feels like   a time capsule of how battles were fought decades  ago, rather than the sort of conventional conflict   you might expect to see in modern times.

More may  also be coming to Ukraine.

Army Recognition notes   that the Greek armed forces have operated the  M110A2 since the early 1980s, and that it held   approximately 145 units of the artillery system  before the announcement of the transfer of 60 of   those units to Ukraine.

For decades, the system  has been Greece’s long-range artillery solution,
though it has become surplus to requirements  as Greece modernizes to standard 155-millimeter   NATO systems.

For Ukraine, that modernization  represented an opportunity to get its hands on   powerful artillery that can shatter Russian  defenses and cripple troops as they attempt   to launch attacks.

So, it was a good deal all  around.

And it looks even better for Ukraine when   you see the breakdown of shells that have been  packaged along with the 60 howitzers.

United24   Media says that Ukraine has received 50,000  high-explosive M106 rounds as part of the deal,   along with 40,000 rocket-assisted M650 rounds,  and 30,000 each of the M509A1 dual-purpose cluster   munitions and M404 improved conventional munitions  that were made for the M110 later in its service   life.

This means the howitzers that Ukraine has  received will be versatile, as well as powerful,   and that’s only going to make them more useful to  Ukraine on the battlefield.

Before we get to how,   another question has to be answered: Could Ukraine  get its hands on more M110 howitzers now that it   has this initial batch? The answer seems to  be yes, if Army Recognition’s claims about   Greece’s stockpiles are accurate.

There should  be another 85 M110s that Greece could transfer,   though this assumes that the howitzers that Greece  has left are in a good enough state of repair for   them to be useful to Ukraine.

We’ll have to wait  to see if any more deals can be struck that would   allow Greece to profit from a system that it  sees as obsolete, but that Ukraine could use   to cause serious damage to a Russian military that  is largely fighting the Ukraine war as though it’s   stuck in the 1950s.

But the bigger question  lies in whether Ukraine would be able to get   its hands on M110s from the United States.

After  all, this is an American weapon, and there is an   initiative in place that allows NATO nations to  buy weapons from the U.S.

that are then delivered   to Ukraine.

The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements  List, or PURL, could be the key to Ukraine getting   its hands on more of these howitzers, assuming  they prove useful enough on the battlefield for   Ukraine to want even more of them.

Ukraine’s NATO  allies have been making good use of PURL so far.

As of December 2025, they had funded more than  $4 billion in packages for Ukraine via PURL,   which is a clever concept that sees Ukraine  denote what it needs in military aid so that   it can be delivered directly to the front lines  by way of purchases from the U.S.

With PURL,   Ukraine gets to dictate where the military aid it  receives goes, rather than hoping that its allies   contribute weapons that it will find useful.

So, PURL could be the route taken to the U.S.

stockpiles of M110 howitzers.

But there may not be  any explosive presents at the end of that route.

According to Deagel, the U.S.

did produce 1,100  M110 howitzers after first introducing the weapon   in 1963.

The same outlet also notes that the  system is somewhat active in various countries,   such as Turkey, Spain, Bahrain, Morocco, and  Jordan, along with Greece.

A couple of those   are countries that could feasibly provide some  of their howitzers to Ukraine, such as Spain,   especially.

But as for the U.S.

, Deagel makes the  contradictory claim that the M110 is both active   in the U.S.

military and that it was retired in  the 1990s, leaving only the M109 as America’s   self-propelled howitzer option.

That turns the  question into what happened to those 1,100 M110s?   We know the answer for at least some, as Real  Clear Defense notes that the 1990s saw the U.S.

use spent M110 barrels as the makeshift casings  of GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs that were used   in the Gulf War against Iraq’s military.

But  that doesn’t tell us whether there are still   M110s lying around in America’s stockpiles,  only without barrels, or if the U.S.

scrapped   the artillery units themselves in the process  of extracting the barrels.

If it’s the former,   perhaps Ukraine could get its hands on what’s left  of America’s M110s and then build barrels for the   howitzers.

The Czech initiative through which  Greece sold its M110s to Ukraine might be able   to help out with that, though this is admittedly  a speculative idea that relies on the U.S.

still   having some M110s and, as crucially, being willing  to sell them to Ukraine via PURL.

Let’s move away   from the ifs and maybes to look at something more  important: The arrival of the M110 howitzer in   Ukraine could lead to key shifts happening in  the portions of the frontlines where the weapon   is deployed.

That alone changes these weapons from  Cold War-era relics to game-changers.

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Now, what does the M110 bring   to Ukraine? For a start, it delivers the sort of  firepower that Ukraine has been missing on the   artillery front for much of the war with Russia.

This isn’t to say that Ukraine had no artillery   firepower.

But the M110, it now has brings several  flavors of devastation for Russia’s forces.

Every   shell fired by the M110 delivers 90 kilograms, or  about 198 pounds, of explosive force to a target.

And with the help of rocket-assisted munitions,  which we know Ukraine has received from Greece,   that firepower can travel for up to 30 kilometers,  or about 18.

6 miles, to wherever Ukraine needs to   explode.

This strength is combined with  mobility, as each M110 is loaded onto   a tracked chassis with a 405-horsepower  engine, allowing Ukraine to move, strike,   and move again so it can cover a wider portion  of the battlefield than it would be able to hit   with immobile artillery.

There is a sacrifice  that Ukraine has to make for this firepower,   though.

Army Recognition notes that each M110 has  to be crewed by a total of thirteen personnel,   five of whom operate the M110’s vehicle, with  the rest following up in a cargo carrier that   holds the shells used in an operation.

That’s a  pretty large troop commitment, and it explains why   the M110s that Ukraine has are being rolled out  specifically to artillery brigades.

Those crews   get their hands on a gun that elevates between  -2 and 65 degrees, the same outlet points out,   and is traversable 30 degrees left and right.

The  M110 also has manual backup controls that can be   used if its hydraulics fail, so Ukraine will have  to train its crews to use those.

Speed could also   be an issue.

The M110 typically fires one round  every two minutes, though it can allegedly reach   two rounds per minute during periods of intense  fire against an enemy.

That assumes the weapon   can be reloaded quickly enough, as it only carries  two rounds.

So, the M110 isn’t a perfect weapon,   by any means.

But it hits hard enough for  the sacrifices that Ukraine has to make   to use it seem almost irrelevant.

The M110 is the  equivalent of the haymaker being delivered behind   the rapid jabs that Ukraine fires at Russian  positions with its smaller and faster howitzers,   and this combination of firepower is another key  factor in why the M110 will be a game-changer,   as you’ll soon find out.

Before we get to  that, there’s also the price to consider.

Yes,   the M110 is old equipment, at least compared to  a lot of what Ukraine receives from its Western   allies.

But there’s a good reason why Ukraine paid  money for 60 of them, rather than insisting that   Greece donate its old artillery units.

Just on  rounds alone, the $230 million that Ukraine spent   works out to a little over $1,500 per powerful  round.

And that would assume that Ukraine got   the 60 M110s themselves for free.

It didn’t.

They have to be included in the price, so $230   million has bought Ukraine a lot of firepower at  a very cheap price.

According to Defense Express,   Greece priced each of the M110s that it sold to  Ukraine at €520,000, or about $599,000.

Multiply   that by 60, and you get about $35.

9 million for  the howitzers.

That, in turn, brings Ukraine’s   cost per shell down to under around $1,300.

All  Ukraine has to do is hit a few tanks and troop   gatherings with its M110s, and the artillery has  practically paid for itself.

That sort of return   on investment is huge for a country that is facing  major financial difficulties caused by four years   of war with Russia.

Those difficulties will be  eased when Ukraine finally starts receiving the   $105 billion loan that the European Union has  committed to providing.

The BBC says that the   first portion of this loan could arrive in Ukraine  as early as April, though the government’s plan to   spend $112 billion in 2026 still leaves it short  of around $45 billion.

Anything that Ukraine can   do to keep its own costs low while inflicting  maximum financial damage on Russia is a positive   move, and the cheap M110s that Ukraine just  received slide nicely into that strategy.

Then,   there’s the versatility that the M110 offers.

And  that’s where things start to get serious for both   Ukraine and Russia.

The 52nd Artillery Brigade  that has received the first batch of M110s is   getting a weapon that perfectly complements the  others that it brings to its artillery assaults   against Russia’s forces.

That brigade already  has the domestically produced Bohdana, which   it can use to conduct precision strikes against  Russian positions at long range.

So, this type of   artillery is ideal for hitting command-and-control  centers, ammunition depots, and other static   targets in the near rear that Russia relies on  during its assaults against Ukraine’s defenses.

Also part of the brigade’s loadout is the RM-70  Vampire, which is used for large fire missions   against equipment and troop concentrations, making  it the ideal choice for dealing with Russia’s   mechanized assaults.

The M110 expands on this by  delivering huge amounts of firepower to Ukraine’s   artillery brigades, as we mentioned earlier.

With this U.S.

-made howitzer, the 52nd Artillery   Brigade can now hit hardened and high-value  targets that the RM-70 Vampire can’t take   out.

That frees up the Bohdana to hit targets at a  deeper range than the M110 can manage, essentially   creating a more layered approach to artillery  than Ukraine had before.

The Vampire takes out the   assaulting units and equipment, the M110 destroys  hardened targets at the rear of those assaults,   and the Bohdana ruins Russia’s rear so that future  assaults are weaker and even easier to pick apart.

Right now, Ukraine’s 52nd Artillery Brigade  is carrying out missions in Eastern Ukraine,   where it is providing fire support and conducting  counter-battery operations, Militarnyi reports.

That brigade is also tackling Russia’s logistics,  which the M110s will be able to help with.

Defense   Express offers a few more details, noting that the  brigade is currently operating in the Kharkiv and   Kramatorsk sectors, where M110s are likely already  in combat.

The latter of those two settlements is
very important.

Kramatorsk is one of the four  large cities that make up the Donetsk fortress   belt, which stretches about 50 kilometers, or 31  miles, along the H-20 Kostyantynivka-Slovyansk   Highway.

Located in the north of that belt, the  city needs to stand for as long as it possibly can   so that Ukraine can use it to destroy Russian  forces as they attempt to follow through on   Putin’s objective of snatching Donetsk, and, in  turn, the Donbas, away from Ukraine.

Kramatorsk   was already a hellhole for invading Russian forces  after Ukraine spent over a decade reinforcing its   defenses in the wake of Russia’s original campaign  of aggression in 2014.

Now that M110s are on the   field, any gathering of troops or hardened  targets related to Russia’s push to take the   city is going to be dealing with immense amounts  of firepower that they’re not ready to handle.

That covers how Ukraine is likely using its M110s  right now.

But it has 60 of these howitzers, and   it seems unlikely that the 52nd Artillery Brigade  has all of them.

More are waiting in the wings,   and the versatility that the M110 brings to the  table due to its shell variety opens up plenty   of other opportunities for Ukraine.

Take Ukraine’s  kill zones as an example.

These kill zones, which   stretch for miles and are infested with drones  and other defenses, are already tearing through   Putin’s forces.

United24 Media does a good job of  explaining why, as it revealed what a typical kill   zone contains in a visual explainer piece that is  horrifying to read if you’re a Russian soldier.

Each of these kill zones has both anti-tank and  anti-personnel measures designed to ruin anything   that tries to make its way through them.

Beyond  the drones constantly patrolling the skies above,
there are mines, anti-tank ditches, and dragon’s  teeth that are in place to stop Russian armor in   its tracks.

Soldiers who try to penetrate on  foot have to deal with miles of barbed wire,   the drones, and the networks of tunnels that  Ukraine has built to facilitate ambushes against   infiltrating Russian soldiers.

What does any  of this have to do with M110s? Ukraine’s kill   zones absolutely deliver on their name, as they  are filled with the meat and metal of Russian   assaults all over the frontlines.

However, their  secondary purpose is to make specific pieces of   territory inaccessible to Russia’s ground forces.

Rather than going through, those forces have to   go around, and that’s where artillery comes  into play.

Through clever implementation of its   kill zones, Ukraine can funnel Russian soldiers  into wide open spaces in the miles of territory   between Russia’s positions and the defenses  that the country’s soldiers want to assault.

That funneling leads to ambushes.

Artillery  rains down shells while FPV drones fly around,   ripping through armor and soldiers with abandon.

Now, imagine M110s firing shells weighing almost   200 pounds into these ambush points.

Nothing that  Russia sends on the ground would stand a chance.

And that’s what awaits in Russia’s future  as it launches its spring offensive against   Ukraine.

The already lethal kill zones have  been made even more dangerous, as Ukraine has   gotten its hands on aging equipment that can  be made new again precisely because Russia’s   main tactic is just to send cannon fodder and,  occasionally, armor to batter Ukraine’s defenses.

Such antiquated tactics make an older weapon like  the M110 not just viable, but utterly destructive   against a slow-moving Russian offensive that  has turned itself into the perfect prey for   such a powerful predator.

A Cold War titan has  been revitalized in Ukraine.

If Russia wants to   fight a war using ancient strategies, Ukraine now  has a weapon that it can use to counteract Putin’s   tactics.

And the odds are high that Ukraine will  find interesting new ways to modernize its M110s,   now that it has them.

The country specializes in  upgrading the Western equipment that it receives,   and there is no better example than what Ukraine  has been doing with its Abrams M1 tanks.

Do you   want to find out more? Watch our video that covers  the upgrade that is so ingenious that even the   U.S wants it.

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