Alexei Reznikov. Photo: Wikipedia.org.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov denies that several HIMARS MLRS units transferred to Kiev by the West were destroyed during the special operation.
“I can say with complete responsibility that not a single HIMARS was lost,” he said in interview with the Voice of America Ukrainian office (recognized in Russia as a foreign agent).
Reznikov believes that such reports are “propaganda”.
It should be noted that the Russian Ministry of Defense repeatedly reported in the official summary of the progress of the special operation to destroy the HIMARS facility. For example, on August 6, it was noted that as a result of a counter-battery fight, a Ukrainian platoon of Alder and American HIMARS multiple launch missile systems was destroyed in the area of the Pyatigorskoye settlement. in Kharkiv region. On August 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that more than three hundred missiles for the HIMARS multiple launch missile systems were destroyed by high-precision missiles at a warehouse near the village of Uman in the Cherkasy region. And on August 13, a report said that HIMARS launchers and ammunition were destroyed in the Kramatorsk region of the DLR.