Video Shows Ukraine Troops Firing HIMARS System

Ukraine's Presidential Administration on Wednesday shared footage it said was of HIMARS rocket systems being launched from Ukrainian territory.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed his country's forces had destroyed six of the more than a dozen HIMARS rocket launcher systems that the US has supplied to Ukraine.

Ukraine issued no immediate comment.

The HIMARS launchers have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian military's precision-strike capability.

(AP)

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[BigTArmada]

An entire salvo out in under a minute and then Himars is on the way to the next target. What a great weapon system

[Priest_Of_Zebak]

Filmed and brought to you by a potatoe.

[greetingsearthlingspluto]

A-Gunner to Gunner: "I think you are firing in the wrong direction?"

[patriayvida]

Wow, imagine that, they finally learn how to work the damn thing! That means they're winning again & we have to send more billions, right?

[doctorpoverty]

Yet, these ungrateful freeloaders are losing and begging for more. Mother Russia for the win

[exxodas]

Send them 1000 HIMARS vehicles, what’s taking so long?

[ericr.]

Besides HIMARS, the US could send ATACMS WDU18 missiles which have the range and force to destroy the Crimera Kerch Bridge and free Kherson Oblast. Russian radar decoys would be of no defence.

[jim]

Yeah, unfortunately right at a crowded train station

[LordDirus]

Interesting Fact, a single Missile is more than the US Government will pay me during my life time for my Disability as a result of my US Army Service in Iraq and Afghanistan

[orionfeb]

How many Azov prisoners of war died after this strike
Or maybe it were children of Donetsk
No most likely it was some infrastructure like bridges

[Cory_P]

Are decision makers consulting spiritual masters? How ignorant to be in such a state to continuously wage war.

[sheilafuller]

What are they aiming at. I'm not a gunner but it seems as a waste to look as though they needed them. In a wheat field? Really?

[elliotjoseph]

Be hilarious if Ukraine put a load speaker on the rocket so just before it hits it will scream WELCOME TO UKRAINE 🇺🇦🇺🇦 BOOOM.

[rudyb]

The comedian can ask Justin Trudeau how to dictate

[pbrooks]

They just announced they were getting them yesterday. Not scripted at all??

[kaptrucking]

Ukrainians demonstration of the arms they're going to sell on the black market

[Chironex_Fleckeri]

It seems the Russians are experiencing some supply chain issues. HIMARS is saving lives 🇺🇦

[techbronson]

Can some one tell me who is winning the war 🤔

[Siempre]

"The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.

As a result of high-precision strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on positions of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade near Kharkov, up to 130 servicemen and 13 armoured vehicles have been destroyed.

Temporary deployment point of units of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, has been hit. The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 400 nationalists and 20 units of military equipment.

As a result of active offensive by Russian troops and DPR and LPR people's militias near Soledar, Artemovsk and Avdeevka in Donetsk People's Republic, units of 54th Mechanized, 56th and 58th Mechanized Infantry brigades of AFU, having lost their combat efficiency due to heavy losses, abandoned their positions.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue against military facilities in Ukraine.

2 command posts, including those of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka in Donetsk People's Republic and nationalist formations near Ternovatoye in Zaporozhye Region, as well as 194 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration have been hit.

2 missile and artillery ammunition depots near Novoivanovka, Zaporozhye Region, and 1 fuel storage facility for Ukrainian military equipment near Zaporozhye-2 railway station have been destroyed.

3 platoons of Grad MLRS, 4 platoons of Gvozdika guns and 3 platoons of D-30 howitzers at firing positions near Lastochkino, Petrovskoye and Avdeevka of Donetsk People's Republic have been suppressed as part of the counter-battery warfare.

Russian air defence means have shot down 4 unmanned aerial vehicles near Andreevka, Druzhnoye in Donetsk People's Republic and Izyum and Dmitrovka in Kharkov Region.

In addition, 5 shells of multiple-launch rocket systems have been intercepted near Druzhnoye, Donetsk People's Republic, and Solnechnoye and Muzykovka, Kherson Region.

In total, 261 Ukrainian airplanes and 145 helicopters, 1, 673 unmanned aerial vehicles, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4, 244 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 786 multiple launch rocket systems, 3, 251 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4, 696 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation."
Russian Defence Ministry Report Thursday 4th August 2022

[kotkesha]

Now Washington will received same from Russia