1. The mortar shell explodes before it is fired.

2. 21 A well placed mortar shell can therefore kill a great many victims at once.

3. At 1635 hours on 25 Rajab A.H. 1436 (14 May A.D. 2015), members of the Houthi terrorist group fired a mortar shell at our forces in Abu al-Radif, opposite border marker 61.

4. At 0520 hours on 26 Rajab A.H. 1436 (15 May A.D. 2015), a mortar shell fired by members of the Houthi terrorist group fell on the Manarah observation post, some 750 metres from the border.

5. Lavrinenko got out of his T-34 near the village and tried to reach the commander of the 17th Armoured Brigade, Lt Col N. Chernoyarov, in order to report his victory but he was killed by a German mortar shell fragment.