HIMARS, an American highly mobile operational-tactical missile and artillery system. File photoLUGANSK, Oct 25Ukrainian forces fired eight HIMARS missiles at the LPR over the past 24 hours, the LPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) said. Ukrainian armed formations recorded five attacks on the settlements of Zorinsk, Belokurakino, Starobelsk, Zolote-2 and Krasnorechenskoye using the American M142 HIMARS MLRS (eight missiles) and 155 mm artillery guns (five shells),» the agency said in its Telegram message. The representative office added that in Belokurakino the building of the railway station was partially destroyed, and in Starobelsk and Zolote-2 two residential buildings were destroyed and one residential building was damaged. Systems and Lockheed Martin in 1996-2000, produced since 2003. Created on the basis of a three-axle wheeled chassis FMTV of the US Army, it can carry six rockets or one ATACMS operational-tactical ballistic missile, the effective firing range for certain types of projectiles is up to 80 kilometers. Artillery with a caliber of 155 millimeters is used by NATO countries. The United States supplied Kyiv with long-range M-777 howitzers with a caliber of 155 millimeters, Ukrainian troops are actively using them to shell the cities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Also, the Kyiv troops were supplied with German PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, Polish Krab self-propelled guns and French CAESAR self-propelled guns using shells of this caliber. 17:18InfographicsInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
