
HIMARS, an American highly mobile operational-tactical missile and artillery system. File photoMOSCOW, June 12Volodymyr Zelensky's office adviser Mikhail Podolyak, following the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksiy Reznikov, began to beg for multiple launch rocket systems from the West. Earlier in June, Reznikov wrote a post on social networks in which he listed «our next goals», this list was «to obtain a significant amount of MLRS of the sample NATO and ammunition for them.
"As for the MLRS, we need not three or four, but about 300", Podolyak told the British newspaper Telegraph. According to him, approximately 90% of the losses of Ukrainian troops on the battlefield were caused by artillery fire.
At the same time, another adviser to Zelensky’s office, Aleksey Arestovich, stated earlier in June that Ukraine needed 60 MLRS – more than Britain and the United States promised. Arestovich is convinced that MLRS are «a weapon that will fundamentally change the situation» in Ukraine, and Western countries, in his opinion, are not supplying enough of these systems to Kyiv. He urged the West to deliver many times more and with a greater range.»From the Soviet Union». How the West really helps Kiev British Defense Minister Ben Wallace has already confirmed that the country, after warnings from the Russian Federation, will not abandon plans to supply Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems. The United States announced the agreement on the supply of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, provided that they would not be used to strike at the territory of the Russian Federation. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia, in the event of deliveries of long-range missiles to Kyiv, would draw its conclusions about delivering strikes on those objects that had not yet been hit. Previously, the United States had already supplied long-range M-777 howitzers, Ukrainian troops had already used them to shell cities , including Donetsk, resulting in civilian deaths.
Romania tested the American HIMARS system for the first time Last Saturday, Ian Gagin, adviser to the head of the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, said RIA Novosti that the armed forces of the DPR destroyed a battery of M-777 howitzers delivered to Kyiv from the United States near Avdiivka. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov previously noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that NATO countries were «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine, Russia sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to Kyiv. Putin also noted that Russian air defense systems in Ukraine are cracking like nuts, dozens have already been destroyed. the French will pay

