Ukrainian army technique in motion: Russian forces claiming to have destroyed superior artillery methods in Ukraine could in some circumstances have been capturing 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 methods 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 pictures of the replicas reviewed by The Washington Publish.”
The tactic just isn’t new and has been utilized in different conflicts, together with World Conflict II. However in Ukraine, it might account for the disconnect between the variety of superior rocket methods — 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 methods are literally accounted for.
Karoun Demirjian, Reis Thebault, Emily Rauhala, Mary Ilyushina, Stefanie Le, Chico Harlan and John Hudson contributed to this report.
