4.06.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
On June 1 or 2, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Russian S-300/400 air defense battery in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. Propagandists immediately stated that the equipment was attacked using the American M142 HIMARS rocket artillery system.
This is stated in the report of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Analysts noted that in the Russian imagination, any Ukrainian strike against legitimate enemy military targets would be a “HIMARS strike.”
The report refers to geolocation images of burning Russian equipment published on social networks on June 3. They show two destroyed launchers and a damaged command post of the Russian S-300/400 air defense system. It is noted that the defeat occurred on a field east of Kiselev (north of Belgorod).
Russian sources widely speculate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used US-provided HIMARS systems for the strike. But Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on this “bavovna” on the territory of the Russian Federation.
According to analysts, the Russian S-300/400 was located approximately 60 km from the current front line in the north of the Kharkov region and more than 80 km from Kharkov itself.
“This is within the range of HIMARS, but exceeds the range of other MLRS systems that Ukrainian forces are reportedly using to target the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation,” ISW says.
They also emphasized that recently propagandists are increasingly claiming that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are using HIMARS for attacks on the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. They draw these conclusions because the United States has partially lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s ability
to use weapons provided by the West to strike military targets in Russia’s border areas with the Kharkov region.
“But Russian sources will likely continue to characterize any successful strike in the Belgorod region as a HIMARS strike, regardless of the system used,” ISW experts said.
Ukrainian analysts suggested that the complex was deployed near Belgorod and was supposed to shoot down large Ukrainian air targets. Therefore, its destruction weakens Russian air defense capabilities, which will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to more effectively hit enemy targets.
As OBOZ.UA reported, soldiers of the 53rd Separate Brigade, the “Malibu” and “Wings to Hell” units of the 103rd Separate Brigade of the TrO defeated a convoy of 18 trucks of the invaders in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. They worked on it with FPV drones: some enemy vehicles “ran away”, the rest were destroyed.
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The roach air defense system is being erased from the face of the Earth, bit by bit. Ukraine’s air force will be able to fly almost at will, especially the upcoming F-16s. That will usher in a new epoch of this terrible war.
“Ukrainian analysts suggested that the complex was deployed near Belgorod and was supposed to shoot down large Ukrainian air targets. ”
Whatever it was there for, it failed miserably. I suspect it was there to target civilians, not the Ukrainian military. mafia land has converted a lot of these systems from ground to air, to ground to ground systems.
Right! They’ll use anything possible to kill civilians.