Ukrainian army technique in motion: Russian forces claiming to have destroyed superior artillery techniques in Ukraine could in some circumstances have been taking pictures at replicas made out of wooden.
On this unique report from Kyiv, John Hudson reveals that “a fleet of decoys resembling superior U.S. rocket techniques has tricked Russian forces into losing costly long-range cruise missiles on dummy targets, based on interviews with senior U.S. and Ukrainian officers and images of the replicas reviewed by The Washington Submit.”
The tactic shouldn’t be new and has been utilized in different conflicts, together with World Conflict II. However in Ukraine, it may account for the disconnect between the variety of superior rocket techniques — together with the U.S.-made HIMARS — that Russian forces declare to have destroyed in Ukraine, and the denials from Kyiv and Washington, the place officers say these techniques are literally accounted for.
Karoun Demirjian, Reis Thebault, Emily Rauhala, Mary Ilyushina, Stefanie Le, Chico Harlan and John Hudson contributed to this report.
