Reuters – July 6, 2022
HIMARS rocker launchers. Click to enlarge
Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday its armed forces had destroyed two advanced U.S.-made HIMARS rocket systems and their ammunition depots in eastern Ukraine, an assertion later rejected by Kyiv.
Moscow said it had destroyed two launchers for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) that the United States and its allies have been supplying to Kyiv.
It also said Russian forces destroyed two ammunition depots storing rockets for the HIMARS near the frontline in a village south of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region – the main focus for Russian troops afterthe capture of Luhansk on Sunday.
The ministry released video footage which it said showed the strike. Reuters could not independently verify the strike.
Ukraine’s general staff rejected Russia’s account later on Wednesday. In a post on Twitter, it said the claims were “fake” and that it was using the U.S.-supplied HIMARS to inflict “devastating blows” on Russian forces.
Ukraine had received only four HIMARS systems as of early July, the European Council on Foreign Relations said in a report. The United States has pledged to deliver eight by mid-July.
Western weapon supplies have been crucial to Ukraine’s efforts to push back the tens of thousands of Russian troops that Moscow sent into its pro-Western neighbour on Feb. 24 in what it calls a “special military operation.”
Boris has gone, because he’s the front man and the fall guy for the UKraine disaster.
Some political goon on Today said that the new PM shouldn’t be ‘contaminated’ (great word choice) with the Johnson regimes policies.
Tom Tugendhat has put his hat (pun intended) in the ring. Tugendhat might as well have an office at Vauxhall Cross.
The fact that Russia has not changed its UKraine strategy, means that it is working as intended.
I don’t agree with their SMO. I think they should have invaded properly and leveled Kiev. At the current rate, UKraine won’t have many men left.
Two advanced U.S.-made HIMARS rocket systems? Now they advance no further.
Just like I said, it would be cheaper if Biden just scrapped US military equipment, but pedo Marxist Joe is happy to provide Putin with practice targets.
Biden doing a gigantic money + material
destruction . it makes no diference to
all the other lost wars + material . it
keeps CIA busy + prosperous .
These weapons are for assassination and terror. What possible difference would a half dozen of these systems make against the Russian push? They’re there to strike ‘specific’ targets/people exactly like the Russians specifically targeted the big ‘secret’ meeting where allegedly 40-50 big brass were killed. These systems are supplied with coordinates from the Pentagram/NRO. There are events taking place even Jim Stone and Co. know nothing about.