UKRAINE
US Rakete würde die "rote Linie" überschreiten
September 20, 2022 -
Moskau warnt, sollte Washington Kiew mit seinem Langstrecken MGM-140 Raketensystem beliefern, würde es die "rote Linie" überschreiten und kriegsführende Partei werden.
Washington has openly supplied Ukraine with the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System fired from its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
GMLRS is a 227mm calibre surface-to-surface missile system with a range of up to 70km.
HIMARS can also fire longer-range ATACMS 610mm calibre tactical missiles, which can range up to 300km.
On August 9, explosions rocked the Russian airbase at Saky on the Crimean Peninsula. Saky is reportedly a training base for Russian navy pilots and home to SU-24 naval attack aircraft, which can carry cruise missiles. The airbase is some 230km from the nearest Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Satellite images later showed as many as nine aircraft destroyed. Russia’s defence ministry denied it was a Ukrainian operation, claiming a weapons store had caught fire.
However, eleven days later, a military website, Defence View, showed a mobile phone video shot in Ukraine of a HIMARS carrying what appears to be a single large missile. The GMLRS rocket pack has six easily identifiable missiles.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova issued the missile warning on Thursday (September 15, 2022), adding that Russia “reserves the right to defend its territory.”