Tag: M142 HIMARS

CBS News Scrambles to Memory-Hole Documentary Claiming Just 30% of Ukraine Aid Makes It to Front Lines

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

CBS News Scrambles to Memory-Hole Documentary Claiming Just 30% of Ukraine Aid Makes It to Front Lines

The timing of the documentary release came just as President Biden is readying a new aid package for Ukraine worth about $1 billion — which is on top of the more than $8 billion in aid the United States has previously provided to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February.

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CBS partially retracts documentary that outraged Ukraine by claiming that US weapon shipments were going missing

CBS said that “Since that time, Ohman says delivery has improved.” It also noted that the US had sent an official — Brigadier General Garrick M. Harmon — to Kyiv specifically to monitor the use of military aid.

Ukraine demands investigation into CBS disinformation about arms smuggling from Ukraine

Watch the original documentary on Bitchute or YouTube.

Previously: 70% of Western weapons sent to Ukraine don’t reach troops – CBS

Ukraine asked for POWs to be placed in prison it shelled – Russia

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RT, 8/4/22

Russia’s Defence Ministry has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting a prison in Donbass where it knew dozens of its own POWs were being held.

The Ukrainian authorities were aware that their soldiers, who surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steel plant, were being held at the prison in the village of Yelenovka, as Kiev itself insisted on them being placed there, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Aleksandr Fomin said on Wednesday.

RT: Ukraine asked for POWs to be placed in prison it shelled – Russia

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Daily pictures : Ukrainian war crime in Yelenovka

The previous attempt occurred on May 18, while the surrender of the Ukrainian garrison in Azovstal, Mariupol, was ongoing. The center started to accommodate the prisoners of war (POWs). The republican and Russian air defense managed to shoot down the Ukrainian Tochka missiles.

New York Times columnist: Deeper mistrust between Biden and Zelenskyy than people know

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Thomas Friedman wrote Monday in a column for the New York Times that there was a deeper mistrust between the White House and Volodymyr Zelenskyy than what has been reported.

New York Times columnist: Deeper mistrust between Biden and Zelenskyy than people know

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Why Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Is Utterly Reckless

The timing could not be worse. Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — considerably more than has been reported.

And there is funny business going on in Kyiv. On July 17, Zelensky fired his country’s prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency — the most significant shake-up in his government since the Russian invasion in February. It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I have still not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kyiv for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there. (More on the dangers of that another day.)

Biden Authorizes Additional $550 Million Military Aid for Ukraine + Are There Enough Guided Rockets For HIMARS To Keep Up With Ukraine War Demand?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden Authorizes Additional $550 Million Military Aid for Ukraine

The new aid was authorized by the presidential drawdown authority, which allows Biden to send Ukraine weapons and ammunition directly from US military stockpiles. The funds were pulled from the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that Biden signed back in May, which is meant to last through September 30.

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Are There Enough Guided Rockets For HIMARS To Keep Up With Ukraine War Demand?

So in essence, at a pace suggested by Hertling, Ukraine’s GMLRS monthly burn rate would equal about 29% of the entire planned U.S. procurement for the next five years, not withstanding production rates of the ER GMLRS which have yet to be set.

Given those numbers, what does Ukraine’s use of HIMARS portend for that nation, and the U.S., which might find itself needing these systems in case of a future fight with China, Russia or some other adversary?

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“If each of 16 HIMARS fires three rockets per day, that’s 48 a day or 1,440 per month. 10,000 rockets would last well into 2023 at that rate. On the other hand, if the Ukrainians get the 100 HIMARS they are requesting and each one fires three rockets per day, that’s 300 per day or 9,000 per month.”

Russia Invites UN, Red Cross to Probe Shelling of Elenovka Pre-Trial Detention Center

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https://youtu.be/0yBbqTJXELQ

Samizdat – 30.07.2022 MOSCOW – Russia has invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to participate in the investigation into the deadly shelling of the pre-trial detention center in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) town of Elenovka, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russia Invites UN, Red Cross to Probe Shelling of Elenovka Pre-Trial Detention Center

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Ukraine – UN offers to investigate Elenovka prison bombing

US HIMARS vs Russia’s Tornado-S – The New Atlas Report (14:43 min) 24 July 2022

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Western media continues singing the praises of US HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems as well as the arrival of M270s from US allies across Europe. However claims that these rocket launchers are “more accurate” and give Ukraine a “game changing” ability are not only false, it omits the fact that Russia has much more capable systems firing rockets just as accurate and at much further ranges.

US HIMARS vs Russia’s Tornado-S – The New Atlas Report (14:43 min) 24 July 2022

Ukraine Fired USA supplied Ammunition On Bridge To Kherson & Nikolaiv / Odessa Front

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Jul 24, 2022 This week Ukraine has purportedly(Russia Forces Claim) fired USA Made HIMARS Rockets on the Antonov Bridge that To Kherson & Nikolaiv / Odessa Front. In this report I am on the bridge showing you the facts and hearing from the current(Russian placed) governor of the Kherson Region. It should be noted that Ukraine says it was not HIMARS but the USA supplied 155 mm Excalibur. Both were given to Ukraine by the USA.

Another note, This bridge connects Kherson and the Nikolaevo-Odessa direction with the overland route to the Crimea.

Ukraine Fired USA supplied Ammunition On Bridge To Kherson & Nikolaiv / Odessa Front – Patrick Lancaster

Related (with obvious Western slant):

Ukraine’s counteroffensive: HIMARS missiles pave Ukraine’s counteroffensive on Kherson

The war in Ukraine, the Antonov Bridge destroyed in the HIMARS attack:

The Ukrainians, however, have their own plans and intend to retake the city. On the western side of the Dnieper there are several, maybe even several thousand, Russian soldiers, and the army is connected by only two bridges – the Antonov Bridge and the bridge in Nowa Kachovka (there is also a dam on which you can cross).