HIMARS hit 50 times without miss, says Ukraine official

“The HIMARS delivered by our Western allies have already given the Russian occupiers a headache. Their ammo depots burn one after another, causing panic,” presidential aide Oleksiy Arestovych has said.

A view of a US High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) during a landing exercise at Spilva airfield in Riga, Latvia, 25 October 2021.

Photo: EPA/TOMS KALNINS

Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform quoted Arestovych as saying that High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), recently delivered to Ukraine by the US, radically changed “the rules of the game”.

“In a single day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked ammo depots in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donets People’s Republic, as well as in Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson oblast and other areas too,” Arestovych said, according to Ukrinform.

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Reportedly, a large Russian ammo depot in Nova Kahovka. pic.twitter.com/YsPDkqBnHK

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“During the week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made more than 50 attacks and all were successful, not a single miss. In the conversations we hear from the occupiers , according to intelligence information, their condition is close to panic. Massive losses, and they don't know what to do about that,” Arestovych said.

US President Joe Biden on Friday signed a new defense aid package for Ukraine worth $400 million, which includes 4 new HIMARS systems, for a total of 12 sent by the White House to Ukraine.

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Source: Ukrinform