A shot of airfield in Berdyansk: Ukraine secretly received ATACMS missiles, - WSJ

The missiles were provided to strengthen the attraction potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a counter -offensive, journalists say. On October 17, Ukrainian troops struck the military facility of the Russians with the help of American long -range ATACMS missiles. Despite the fact that official sources have not reported the supply of these missiles, some of them were secretly sent to Ukraine, the journalists of The Wall Street Journal write.

"A small number of rockets have been sent to Ukraine in recent days in recent days, where they will increase Kiev's opportunities to strike distant strikes on the Russian forces at an important counter -offensive stage," journalists write. According to some reports, in addition to ATACMS missiles, Ukrainian forces also used the GlSDB (Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb) variant. At least three hits in the object were reported.

In this case, both GLDSB and ATACMS are launched from the ground installations of the M270 and Himars RSZV, and the range of both exceeds 150 km. According to the Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces at the time of the night strike at the airfield in Berdyansk there were about 20 helicopters of different types.

The forces of special operations argue that as a result, nine helicopters have been destroyed, special equipment, start -up starting and ammunition composition, as well as damaged runways. Earlier, the focus described in detail the situation at the airfield in Berdyansk and talked about missiles that could be applied during the attack. It has been reported that ATACMS missiles with a cassette combat part are particularly effective because they contain from 300 to 900 subbounds.