Ukraine Has Purportedly fired a US-supplied HiMARS rocket on a civilian apartment building in Kuibishevsky Region Donetsk.
Russian and DPR forces accuse Ukraine of firing US-supplied HiMARS rocket on a civilian apartment building in Kuibishevsky Region Donetsk.
In this report we were on the location of the attack yesterday.
Please comment below if you can I identify what it is.
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army, mounted on a standard Army M1140 truck frame.
The HIMARS carries six rockets or one MGM-140 ATACMS missile on the U.S. Army’s new Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) five-ton truck and can launch the entire Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions (MFOM).
HIMARS ammunition is interchangeable with the MLRS M270A1; however, it is only able to carry one pod rather than the standard two for the M270 and A1 variants. At least 4 have been given to Ukraine by the USA.
It is unclear if they are in activ use yet but this attack was made by something that seems not to be Fromm Ukraine, Russia or the USSR
Alexander Mercouris suggests a few things in his evening video on the 21st of June in relation to the bombardment of Donetsk.
That it would appear that the American artillery is being used on Donetsk, not the front line.
That Donetsk, the oil rig, and Lithuania are being used as “distractions”.
That the Russians will stick with their objectives and when northern Donbass is achieved turn their attention to Donetsk.
That Russia is still using an “expeditionary” force and that the soldiers are regularly rotated in and out. That much of the “street fighting” is done by the Donbass militia, not the Russian army.
A commenter has remarked that the area/city from which Ukraine is shelling Donetsk also has a large civilian population, so surrounding would be a safer strategy for the civilians than missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3maIN4-ZJl8
