Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thanked the USA for the decision to provide Ukraine with four more High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3526203-general-staff-thanks-us-for-supplying-four-more-himars-systems.html

The American Himars have the two qualities that the Ukrainians craved:

The first is the firing distance: they can hit the ammunition and fuel depots that until yesterday the Russians had positioned comfortably in the rear because they believed that this would be safe. It is as if the war map had suddenly changed, there is no longer any salvation in the depths. Entire regions previously inaccessible are now under fire. Even the railway from the north down to the Donbass in the east of the country, which is the preferred supply line for the Russians, is now on display.

The second is precision, which however costs 155 thousand dollars per rocket: “It hits with a range of nine meters – says the military source – so in practice it always hits the mark. For us this is instead the weapon of liberation, which we will use in a way massive to take back the cities occupied by the Russians. Until now Ukrainian soldiers have been blocked by the fear of hitting civilians in the occupied areas, to avoid mistakes they only fired when they knew that the entire range of fire was free – and therefore did not pass through inhabited centers. Everything changes with the precision of the satellite-guided Himars.“

https://www.breakinglatest.news/world/kiev-hopes-in-himars-rocket-launchers-they-are-the-weapon-of-liberation/