The United States blocked the supply of Himars MLRS to Ukraine, according to the Avia portal.
Until the end of this month, the United States will not supply new multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine. According to sources, the reason for this was certain circumstances identified by the American side, in particular, we can talk about the losses of six Himars MLRS, which the Russian side had previously announced.
Cyberspec News
The United States believes that Ukraine already has enough Western multiple launch rocket systems of the HIMARS type
Therefore, they will only supply ammunition to the remaining systems, the White House said.
ASB Military News
Pentagon: “Russia has 70.000-80.000 military casualties since the start of the operation.”
Casualties meaning killed and injured, so that means 20.000 killed & 4x that number of injured if were being generous.
20.000 deaths is an insane number. That is something you can’t hide. That means hundreds of corpses rotting all over Ukraine. That means endless trucks of bodies travelling between Ukraine and Russia. That means Russian graveyards working nonstop— all the stuff we see from the Ukrainian side. Huge funerals, huge amounts of graves on pictures and huge trucks transporting bodies. — none of that was spotted in Russia. Not even once. Russia has over 145 million people. Not one person has filmed it? 🤔
Source; Pentagon’s propaganda department.
The realistic number, if you’re generous is 10.000-15.000 deaths amongst LPR, DPR and Russian forces combined & 35-40k injured. No way Russia has taken 80k casualties. The rotation of troops to keep 200k active in Ukraine with 80k casualties would be impossible to hide from social media. All we’ve seen were small rotational convoys.
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“The United States believes that Ukraine already has enough Western multiple launch rocket systems of the HIMARS type
Therefore, they will only supply ammunition to the remaining systems, the White House said.”
I believe they got 16 of the truck mounted HIMARS, and just a few of the tracked M-270 MLRS, or its MARS 2 variant - all of which fire the same rocket pods, interchangeably. About 20 launchers.
If they fire four loads per night (48 rockets), that would be about 1,500 rockets per month - a high rate. 20 launchers are probably enough to deliver that amount of ordnance, and still be able to play hide and seek with Russian counter-battery efforts.
I view it as an indication that there now enough operating to execute the counter-offensive Operational Plan that has been developed and agreed to. That deep strike capability is demonstrated to be working well.
The Ukrainians will likely be stressed/challenged more by other aspects of mounting a big counter-offensive over a lot of territory. So far, where Ukraine has gained significant territory, it has been where Russian forces chose to withdraw (Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy). Conducting a big offensive against determined Russian resistance is not yet something that the Ukrainians have proven they can pull off. Driving Russian forces back out of Artillery range from Kharkiv City is probably their best such showing so far, on a small scale, in different terrain, and with almost no logistic lines of communication to maintain - operating right out of the second largest city, with rail and highway connections open.
It is going to be a new war in the South. Shaping operations (like those bridges) and suppression of air defense is already underway. Russia has redeployed most of its regular forces from the Donbas to the South. We will have to see how the new dynamic plays out in the South. The next major phase of the war.