Thread by @wartranslated

🧵An interesting exchange happened today between admins of two large Russian military expert channels, GREY ZONE and Starshe Eddy, discussing the effect of HIMARS strikes that seem to have started demolishing Russian positions more often than before.

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Starshe Eddy posted at 4PM their observations of recent HIMARS strikes saying that Ukrainians became more open to hitting a wider range of facilities, which may be due to an increase in missile supplies for these systems by the USA.

To which the GREY ZONE responded with an admission that HIMARS’ devastating power is far more superior to even the most advanced of the systems that Russia has at disposal (aside from high-precision missiles such as Kalibr which are a class of their own).

They also followed up by saying that Russian missile raid on 24 February was practically useless considering most of Ukrainian personnel was withdrawn from their permanent locations over a day before the invasion began:

Starshe Eddy responded with a short note saying that GREY ZONE misunderstood them and they never intended to minimise the impact of HIMARS, and admitting they’ve experienced a HIMARS strike themselves:

While HIMARS targets largely remain unannounced by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it is indeed interesting to note how the effectiveness of the system frequently raises discussion in the Russian sources. End of 🧵