Ukraine lobbying US for longer-range missiles after ‘HIMARS strike kills Russian general’
- The United States has sent eight HIMARS rocket launchers to Ukraine, and said it is sending four more
- Weapons from Western countries have given Ukraine capability to attack deeper into Russian-controlled territory
Ukraine is lobbying the United States to supply it with longer-range missiles for the HIMARS rocket launchers, after targeting Russian military depots and claiming it killed a general with the US-supplied weapon.
Major General Artem Nasbulin of Russia was killed in the Kherson region by High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) missiles, Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Odesa regional administration spokesperson, said on Telegram on Tuesday.
Bratchuk did not say exactly where the attack took place, or when. Russia has not confirmed Nasbulin’s death – as has been common with other reported Russian deaths – and it has not been independently verified.
The US has sent eight HIMARS to Ukraine, and said last week that it was sending four more. The HIMARS system is more accurate than the systems Russia has, the BBC reported.
The US, EU, and other nations have been sending weapons to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began on February 24. But Ukraine had repeatedly said that more were needed to beat Russia, including long-range weapons. Western nations then started to send those kinds of weapons.
The request for longer range US missiles was confirmed by Fedir Venyslavsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament’s defence committee, on Wednesday.
