Deteriorating battlefield conditions forced the U.S. to permit Ukraine to use Western-supplied artillery and rocket systems to defend the eastern city of Kharkiv by targeting border regions where the Kremlin’s forces assemble and launch attacks
Staff Sgt. Jimmy Lerma, crew chief for Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, adjusts the Army Tactical Missile System for loading on to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at Williamson Airfield in Queensland, Australia, on July 26, 2023.Weeks after the decision allowing Ukraine to use U.S.
The Ukrainian commanders interviewed spoke on condition that their callsigns be used, in line with brigade rules. “Unfortunately, we still cannot reach, for example, airfields and their aircraft. This is the problem,” Yehor Cherniev, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on national security, defence and intelligence, said earlier this month. “That’s why we are asking to lift the restrictions to use long-range missiles against limited military targets in the territory of Russia.”
“The HIMARS were not silent for the whole day,” Hefastus said, recalling the first hours when permission was granted to use the rocket systems. “From the first days, Ukrainian forces managed to destroy whole columns of troops along the border waiting for the order to enter Ukraine.” The U.S. decision came in the 11th hour, after much lobbying by Ukrainian officials and right as troops were preparing for combat in anticipation of Russia opening a new front in the northeast.
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