SQUADS of hero Ukrainian gunners are turning the tide against Vladimir Putin’s invaders — using a mixture of British weapons.

Teams are manning M270 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and L119 howitzers to blitz Russian forces and “change the face of the war”.

One group using an MLRS, who trained for three weeks on Salisbury Plain, Wilts, were raining death on the occupiers from a vast pine forest hidden from surveillance drones.

The £140,000-a-pop rockets, now running low in Ukraine, can hit a 10ft square target from 52 miles and the launcher is so hated and feared by Russia that the crew have a squad of special forces bodyguards.

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