Our Rockets ‘Significantly’ Keeping Russian Troops At Bay – Ukraine

• Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, has captured a chunk of territory in southern Ukraine and used its artillery supremacy in the east to make gradual territorial gains

• But, a top Ukrainian general said on Thursday that Russia had not taken a “single metre” of land in the last week and that Ukrainian rocket attacks were disrupting Russian supply lines

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine has said that its rocket attacks have destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centres in recent weeks and significantly reduced Russia’s attacking potential.

Ukraine’s defence ministry spokesperson, Oleksandr Motuzianyk, singled out the role played by US-produced HIMARS rocket systems, one of several types of long-range weapons supplied by the West to help Ukraine fight back against Russia.

“In the last weeks, over 30 of the enemy’s military logistical facilities have been destroyed, as a result of which the attacking potential of Russian forces has been significantly reduced,” Motuzianyk said on national television.

Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, has captured a chunk of territory in southern Ukraine and used its artillery supremacy in the east to make gradual territorial gains, eventually capturing the Luhansk region.

But, a top Ukrainian general said on Thursday that Russia had not taken a “single metre” of land in the last week and that Ukrainian rocket attacks were disrupting Russian supply lines, forcing Moscow to keep its ammunition further back from the front line.

HIMARS have a longer range and are more precise than Ukraine’s Soviet-era artillery, allowing Ukrainian forces to hit Russian targets that were previously unreachable with more conventional weapons.

Ukraine’s defence minister also said on Friday that Kyiv had received a first consignment of M270 multiple rocket launch systems, without specifying which country provided them.

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Russia has criticised the United States and United Kingdom for helping train Ukraine’s armed forces, calling it part of NATO’s “hybrid warfare” against Moscow.

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