Along with the HIMARS that wiped out Putin’s entire Sumy offensive command leadership a few weeks ago.
All HIMARS strikes have to be pre approved by the U.S."
I doubt if every HIMARS strike is pre-approved by the US, except as a general category of targets.
IOW, Ukraine may submit a list of target categories and Washington will say "yes" or "no" to each category.
Once approved, individual strikes are at Ukraine's discretion.
For over a year now, Russian EW GPS jamming & spoofing have rendered HIMARS less effective than originally hoped.
For all that time, Ukrainian & Western techs have worked on ways to defeat Russia's EW jammers & spoofers.
So, your report here suggests that perhaps Ukrainians have found more success lately than in past months.
Spy vs. Spy:
Russian 1L269 Krasukha-2/4 vs. US HIMARS:
