Russia claims advanced US rocket launchers destroyed in Ukraine
Al JazeeraRussia claims it also destroyed two ammunition depots storing rockets for the HIMARS near a village south of Kramatorsk. The Russian defence ministry has claimed its forces have destroyed two US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System missile launchers in the embattled Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. The ministry said on Wednesday that Russian forces also destroyed two ammunition depots storing rockets for the highly-advanced HIMARS near the front line in a village south of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region – the main focus of Moscow’s military offensive following the capture of the Luhansk region during the weekend. “Near the village of Malotaranovi in the Donetsk People’s Republic, two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher and two associated ammunition depots were destroyed by air-launched high-precision missiles,” Russian defence ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said.