Die Washington Post hat im Dezember einen ukrainischen General zitiert, der den Beschuss mit Himars-Raketen zu Protokoll gegeben hat. Die Ukrainer mögen ja allerlei Blödsinn machen, aber sie verballern keine teuren Raketen auf Ziele, denen sie damit nach allgemeinem Verständnis nichts anhaben können.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/
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The two bridges were targeted with U.S.-supplied M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems — or HIMARS launchers, which have a range of 50 miles — and were quickly rendered impassable.
“There were moments when we turned off their supply lines completely, and they still managed to build crossings,” Kovalchuk said. “They managed to replenish ammunition. … It was very difficult.”
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.