In his analysis published in Telegram, the author of the material also says that the strategy of the Ukrainian troops was initially to move the HIMARS every 12 hours. Different locations, unrelated to each other, were used. Ukraine has also avoided locating a group of systems in one place, but “each separate system in a separate place”. However, Moscow has monitored these activities without taking action. In this way, the Ukrainian armed forces were left with the impression that they had managed to fool Russian military intelligence.

At some point, the Ukrainian armed forces began grouping more than one HIMARS system at one location, and then the Russian armed forces struck them. Legitimney also says: “Now the KHIMARS are few and far between, not as much as they used to be, so there is not as much ‘noise’, and the General Staff no longer publishes pictures of them, realizing that the Russians are yet to try to destroy them all.”

“In addition, the Russians partially changed the tactics of deploying warehouses and strengthened air defense. Of course, the VSU [Armed Forces of Ukraine – ed.] sometimes manages to break through the defenses and inflict damage, but not much,” says Legitimney in its analysis.

Antonovsky bridge
The Telegram channel Legitimney makes an interesting analysis of the Antonovsky Bridge, defining the Ukrainian operation to bomb it as a failure. “All the military consider the case of the Antonovsky bridge a failure. After a month and a half of constant attacks, the bridge is standing, many missiles and forces have been expended, and the Russians have not lost the transport artery with the other side of the Dnieper,” the analysis says.

According to Legitimney, this case is only for PR and creating “noise” to distract the masses, but in strategic military terms, it is a failure.

BulgarianMilitary.com cannot confirm the truth of the statements and information published in the analysis of this Telegram channel Legitimney. BulgarianMilitary.com was unable to find out who administers the Legitimney channel, too. Despite Legitimney’s claims, no sources, footage, or satellite images were attached to the analysis to proof its claims.

Russia says
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation says in a press release about its military actions on July 17 that in the region of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk, a high-precision missile destroyed one of the M142 HIMARS missile launchers delivered to the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Ministry of Defense released a drone video showing the launch of the precise strike missile, as well as the deployment of at least one HIMARS unit, but not the destruction of the missile system. I.e. from information available through open sources, it can be claimed that the Russian Armed Forces know the location of at least one M142 HIMARS unit.

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“In the area of ​​the settlement of Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk People’s Republic, a launch and transport-loading machine of a US HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system was destroyed with a high-precision ground weapon,” the report said.

According to a Russian reporter for the online publication Raketna Technika – S.V. Gurov, Russia has destroyed four more HIMARS. Gurov claims that based on the information provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense at the moment, the destroyed M142 HIMARS near Krasnoarmeysk is the fourth of four missile systems delivered to Ukraine.

“Taking into account the reliability of the previously published information, it can be assumed that during the hostilities, the Armed Forces of Ukraine [VSU] lost four HIMARS MLRS combat vehicles from their first delivery to Ukraine. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Federation took them less than a month to destroy the most important part of the delivered weapons and military equipment,” Gurov said in his comment.

Evidence please...

At least they admit the effectiveness of the HIMRASes unlike Putin who claims they are light years ahead of their contemporary in terms of weapon sophistry.

Ukrainian forces using dummy HIMARS to lure Russian missiles - WP