PANAGYURISHTE ($1=1.95 Bulgarian Levs) — The professional-Ukrainian Telegram channel Legitimney [Legitimate in English – ed.] claims that based on their sources, greater than 60% of the HIMARS delivered to Ukraine have been destroyed. “We had been the primary to offer inside data on the techniques of utilizing the armed forces of HIMARS and likewise described how the Russian Federation may shut this case. Our supply reported that greater than 60% of the HIMARS had been destroyed,” the channel wrote Legitimney.
In his evaluation printed in Telegram, the creator of the fabric additionally says that the technique of the Ukrainian troops was initially to maneuver the HIMARS each 12 hours. Completely different areas, unrelated to one another, had been used. Ukraine has additionally averted finding a bunch of techniques in a single place, however “every separate system in a separate place”. Nonetheless, Moscow has monitored these actions with out taking motion. On this manner, the Ukrainian armed forces had been left with the impression that they’d managed to idiot Russian navy intelligence.
Sooner or later, the Ukrainian armed forces started grouping multiple HIMARS system at one location, after which the Russian armed forces struck them. Legitimney additionally says: “Now the KHIMARS are few and much between, not as a lot as they was, so there may be not as a lot ‘noise’, and the Normal Workers not publishes footage of them, realizing that the Russians are but to attempt to destroy all of them.”
“As well as, the Russians partially modified the techniques of deploying warehouses and strengthened air protection. In fact, the VSU [Armed Forces of Ukraine – ed.] generally manages to interrupt by means of the defenses and inflict injury, however not a lot,” says Legitimney in its evaluation.
Antonovsky bridge
The Telegram channel Legitimney makes an fascinating evaluation of the Antonovsky Bridge, defining the Ukrainian operation to bomb it as a failure. “All of the navy think about the case of the Antonovsky bridge a failure. After a month and a half of fixed assaults, the bridge is standing, many missiles and forces have been expended, and the Russians haven’t misplaced the transport artery with the opposite aspect of the Dnieper,” the evaluation says.
In response to Legitimney, this case is just for PR and creating “noise” to distract the lots, however in strategic navy phrases, it’s a failure.
BulgarianMilitary.com can’t verify the reality of the statements and data printed within the evaluation of this Telegram channel Legitimney. BulgarianMilitary.com was unable to seek out out who administers the Legitimney channel, too. Regardless of Legitimney’s claims, no sources, footage, or satellite tv for pc photographs had been hooked up to the evaluation to proof its claims.
Russia says
The Ministry of Protection of the Russian Federation says in a press launch about its navy actions on July 17 that within the area of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk, a high-precision missile destroyed one of many M142 HIMARS missile launchers delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces.
The Ministry of Protection launched a drone video displaying the launch of the exact strike missile, in addition to the deployment of at the least one HIMARS unit, however not the destruction of the missile system. I.e. from data obtainable by means of open sources, it may be claimed that the Russian Armed Forces know the situation of at the least one M142 HIMARS unit.
“Within the space of the settlement of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk Individuals’s Republic, a launch and transport-loading machine of a US HIMARS a number of rocket launcher system was destroyed with a high-precision floor weapon,” the report mentioned.
In response to a Russian reporter for the net publication Raketna Technika – S.V. Gurov, Russia has destroyed 4 extra HIMARS. Gurov claims that based mostly on the data offered by the Russian Ministry of Protection in the mean time, the destroyed M142 HIMARS close to Krasnoarmeysk is the fourth of 4 missile techniques delivered to Ukraine.
“Making an allowance for the reliability of the beforehand printed data, it may be assumed that through the hostilities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine [VSU] misplaced 4 HIMARS MLRS fight automobiles from their first supply to Ukraine. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Federation took them lower than a month to destroy an important a part of the delivered weapons and navy gear,” Gurov mentioned in his remark.
Most tough goal
On July 27 a Russian anti-aircraft [AA] gunner described to the Russian information company RIA Novosti how tough it’s to counter the HIMARS MLRS. The company doesn’t point out his title however refers to him as “the officer” [most likely because of his rank as an officer in the army].
In response to the Russian officer, gunners working the Russian military’s Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system in Ukraine are progressively studying tips on how to shoot down the American M30/M31 missiles that HIMARS fires. “Moreover efficiently dealing with its duties set by the manufacturing facility, it additionally fired missiles, though this was not based on its traits [declared],” the officer mentioned.
The Russian officer claims that he personally shot down one American HIMARS MLRS missile over the Donbas, donated to Ukraine. However he admits that this American weapon is a critical problem for Russian gunners.
“Probably the most tough goal we now have labored on is HIMARS rockets. These shells … fly at a really excessive altitude. We at the least detect [missiles] as much as 22 thousand meters in peak. The issue lies in the truth that the vary is brief, and the time to decide is minimal… Our fight crews valiantly deal with the duty of capturing down, actually inside 10 seconds… The efficient dispersion space of these shells may be very small, solely zero. Due to this fact, the goal is taken into account small-sized, high-speed,” the supply mentioned.
The Russian officer who spoke to RIA Novosti mentioned that the Buk-M3 copes rather more efficiently with artillery shells of Soviet design, or Russian design, that are in service within the stock of the Ukrainian navy. For instance, he offers that over the Donbas Buk-M3 efficiently intercepted and shot down [95%] Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles fired.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 21 February 2022, the Russian authorities claimed that Ukrainian shelling had destroyed an FSB border facility on the Russia Ukraine border, and claimed that it had killed 5 Ukrainian troopers who tried to cross into Russian territory. Ukraine denied being concerned in each incidents and known as them a false flag.
On the identical day, the Russian authorities formally acknowledged the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR as unbiased states, based on Putin not solely of their de-facto managed areas, however the Ukrainian Oblasts as a complete, and Putin ordered Russian troops, together with tanks, to enter the areas.
On 24 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine by Russian Armed Forces beforehand concentrated alongside the border. The invasion adopted by focused airstrikes of navy buildings within the nation, in addition to tanks getting into by way of the Belarus border.
Russia has up to now not acknowledged the invasion of Ukraine as a “conflict”, though that’s precisely what it’s, claiming that it’s a “particular navy operation”. In response to the UN, wherein Russia has its everlasting illustration, for navy motion to be outlined as a “particular navy operation”, it should have a decision issued by the UN. There isn’t a such decision, which robotically defines the navy actions of the Russians as an invasion and conflict towards the residents of Ukraine.
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