Ukrainian military strategy in action: Russian forces claiming to have destroyed superior artillery programs in Ukraine might in some circumstances have been taking pictures at replicas made out of wooden.
On this unique report, John Hudson reveals that “a fleet of decoys resembling superior U.S. rocket programs has tricked Russian forces into losing costly long-range cruise missiles on dummy targets, in line with interviews with senior U.S. and Ukrainian officers and images of the replicas reviewed by The Washington Publish.”
The tactic isn’t new, and has been utilized in different conflicts, together with World Battle II. However in Ukraine, it might account for the disconnect between the variety of superior rocket programs — together with the U.S.-made HIMARS — Russian forces declare to have destroyed in Ukraine, and the denials from Kyiv and Washington, the place officers say these programs are literally accounted for.
Karoun Demirjian, Reis Thebault, Mary Ilyushina and John Hudson contributed to this report.
