Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Russian targets destroyed by HIMARS rocket-launching trucks in Ukraine | DW News" video.

thanks, I hadn't yet heard the explanation that HIMARS was complicating russian artillery supply by puishing depots back from the front lines. that makes a lot of sense. we already got a pretty good idea of the supply distance that russia is able to effectively bridge by road early in the war near kyiv. I think they run into a lot of trouble around 50km, so the 80km range of HIMARS is definitely a problem. the sort of artillery tatctics of the russians require huge amounts of ammunition, which is super heavy and difficult to transport and load. if ukraine had had HIMARS at the beginning of the war, mariupol might look very different.
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@almitrahopkins1873 the ukrainians officially agreed to not shoot HIMARS at russian territory as a condition to get it from the US. I think they may have already done it though. but I think fuel depots tend to be a bit easier to hit and destroy with less accurate weapons, since they tend to be bigger and less protected than ammunition stores.
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