Ukraine uses fake wooden HIMARS to lure Russia into wasting cruise missiles

 Ukraine uses fake wooden HIMARS to lure Russia into wasting cruise missiles: US says invaders 'claim to have hit more HIMARS than we even sent!'

• Ukraine have been using a fleet of decoys to trick Russian forces in ongoing war
• The decoys drew in 10 Russian missiles, an initial success that led to expansion
• Russian defence officials have repeatedly announced successful HIMARS strikes
• Yet the Pentagon, which provided 16 HIMARS to Ukraine, denies these claims

• Ukraine have been using a fleet of decoys resembling advanced U.S rocket systems HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) to trick Russian forces into wasting expensive long-range cruise missiles on dummy targets. 

  The Ukrainian decoys are made out of wood but can be indistinguishable from an artillery battery through the lens of Russian drones, which transmit their locations to naval cruise missile carriers in the Black Sea, according to The Washington Post.

  'When the UAVs see the battery, it's like a VIP target,' said a senior Ukrainian official, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles encountering long-range artillery replicas.  to trick Russian forces into wasting expensive long-range cruise missiles on dummy targets. 

• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161329/Ukraine-used-fake-wooden-HIMARS-lure-Russia-wasting-cruise-missiles.html

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Putin expresses 'sympathy' as Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 - despite destroying his legacy of peace - while Russia's warmongers openly greet the death of the man who ended the Cold War

• Mikhail Gorbachev - the last leader of the Soviet Union - has died in a Moscow hospital aged 91
• Gorbachev helped bring the Cold War to an end and his sweeping reforms hastened the collapse of the USSR
• Under his rule, the Iron Curtain which had divided Europe since the Second World War disintegrated
• But many hardliners in Russia never forgave Gorbachev for the turmoil his liberalising reforms unleashed
• Putin, who famously described the collapse of the Soviet Union as a 'catastrophe', expressed 'sympathies'
• Pro-Kremlin commentators however have published a torrent of vitriolic messages since Gorbachev's death 
• In the weeks before his death a senior Russian journalist in touch with Gorbachev said the former leader was upset to see Putin 'destroy his life's work' 

• Vladimir Putin has expressed 'sympathies' following the death of Mikhail Gorbachev aged 91 last night - even though the last leader of the USSR is largely despised by Kremlin hardliners over the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  The Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said that Gorbachev died 'after a serious and long illness' but gave no other details.

  He had been suffering from long term kidney problems and was on dialysis - and had been confined to a clinic during the Covid pandemic.

• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11162893/How-sad-Vlad-Putin-expresses-sympathy-death-Mikhail-Gorbachev-aged-91.html