How HIMARS Changed the War in Ukraine - Russian Invasion DOCUMENTARY


Toward the start of July, Russia kept on fostering its prosperity on the Donbas front.

The 150th Motor Rifle Division, the components of the Chechen National Guard, and the fourth

what's more, the fourteenth Motor Rifle Brigades of the LPR civilian army proceeded with their development in Lysychansk.

By July 2, it was accounted for that the Ukrainian units settled their battling withdrawal from

Lysychansk to their next line of safeguard generally between Berestove in the South and Hryhorivka in

the North, as Russia caught the city. Albeit Russian sources guaranteed an encompassing of a huge

Ukrainian power nearby, they neglected to demonstrate this with pictures or video, and the case was later

generally dropped later on. The following objective of the Russian armed force in Donbas was to break

through the Siversk-Bakhmut line and afterward battle for the agglomeration of Sloviansk-Kramatorsk

what's more, against the Sloviansk-Kostyantynivka line. On July 1, they likewise made endeavors to progress towards

Klynove, Novoluhanske, and Vuhlehirsk power station, where the 30th and the 72nd Mechanized

Detachments safeguarded their situations against the 31st Guards Airborne Brigade and the Diesel Battalion,

the 11st Motor Rifle Regiment and the fifth Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the rebel DPR powers.

Here the objective was to arrive at Bakhmut, the significant transportation center of the Donetsk Oblast.

Russia additionally saw its assaults repulsed in Dementiivka of the Kharkiv oblast

what's more, Pavlivka of the Zaporizhia Oblast. Alongside that, the Russian armed force made one more

ruthless assault on the non military personnel framework of Ukraine, as it sent off 3 Kh-22 rockets on Odesa

killing somewhere around 21 regular people. It was the main significant assault on the non military personnel populace in July,

as comparative fierce assaults occurred in Chasiv Yar on July 9 killing no less than 48 individuals,

furthermore, in Vinnytsia on July 14 killing something like 22 individuals.

On July 1, the US government reported its fourteenth guide bundle worth 820 million bucks to Ukraine,

which included ammo for HIMARS and 155mm cannons, 2 NASAMS, and 4 counter-ordnance

radars. Around the same time, the Institute for the Study of War detailed about a proposed

change to government regulations on the Russian Armed Forces, which would change the Russian

economy into a conflict time economy by precluding organizations from dismissing the state orders for

the "exceptional military activity" and by permitting the state to compel representatives to stay at work past 40 hours.


This change, which was taken on July 6, emerged due to legitimate need, as Russia had

begun to prepare for a more drawn out struggle that would require more military creation.

Various Russian military bloggers that help the Russian attack of Ukraine, yet scrutinize

the political and military administration for disappointments on the combat zone, including the previous authority

of the DPR separatists Igor Girkin-Strelkov likewise expressed their help for the assembly of the

stores of the Russian armed force. They accept that the powers sent in Ukraine are lacking

to overcome the Ukrainian armed force and afterward control the involved regions and that main activation

could change that. Be that as it may, despite the fact that most of the Russian populace is steady

of the supposed extraordinary military activity, preparation is a hazardous undertaking. Supporting a

war elsewhere is a certain something, yet being prepared to partake in it is something else entirely

matter. Assembly would be a disagreeable choice even among numerous Putin allies

also, it would be hard for the bad Russian armed force to appropriately really execute it. Also,

assembly would mean recognizing that the extraordinary military activity isn't going concurring

to the arrangement, as opposed to what the Kremlin has been talking about starting from the beginning of the conflict.

Consequently, general preparation of the Russian armed force is improbable as of now, yet entirely the Russian

government has been utilizing different measures to ease the lack of faculty sent

to Ukraine. On July 13, a report about the undercover request of the Russian government to

structure volunteer contingents in the RF's government subjects arose. As per this report,

every government subject was allocated with making no less than one unit with 400 men toward the finish of

Admirable. This would mean around 34000 newcomers for the Russian armed force, who might initially pass a

extended preparing in Russia. Organizations of government subjects support likely enrolls with

around 200k rubles (roughly 3400 USD) of selection reward, alongside 220000-350000 rubles

of compensation each month. The Russian media announced about the formation of such brigades in Kursk,

Primorskyi Krai, Republic of Bashkortostan, Chuvashia Republic, Chechnya, Republic of

Tatarstan, Moscow City, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod, and Orenburg Oblasts in late June and early July.

On July 2, the eighteenth Guards Motor Rifle Division made one more endeavor to take Dementiivka in the

Kharkiv oblast, yet the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade shocked it. The reason for this hostile

was to upset the Ukrainian inventory lines along the T2117 parkway and secure the E105 thruway.

Dementiivka was additionally ineffectively gone after on July 8, 12, and 14. Getting it would

Yet again empower Russians to go after the city of Kharkiv, yet at that point Russia didn't

have adequate soldiers to undermine the second biggest Ukrainian city everything being equal

There was likewise some minor activity on the Donbas front, as the 90th Guards Tank Brigade

attempted to progress on Bohorodychne, where the 80th Air Assault Brigade protected its positions.

One more eminent occasion of this day was the revealed harm by Ukrainian hardliners close to Melitopol,

where a Russian protected train conveying ammo was wrecked. It is eminent that all through July,

Ukraine had a significant spotlight on obliterating Russian military framework on the front line, specifically

its ammo and weapon warehouses and oil stops. On July 3, Ukrainians struck a warehouse in Melitopol.

On July 4, Russian ammo warehouses in Snizhne, Yakovlivka (Donetsk oblast), at Donetsk

rail route station, in Dibrivne (Kharkiv oblast), and close to Kadiivka (Luhansk oblast) detonated.

On July 5, a tactical distribution center at Topaz Plant in Donetsk detonated. On July 6, the Ukrainian

military obliterated Russian ammo stops close to the Kherson rail route station and an oil terminal in

Donetsk. On July 8, an ammo station detonated in the involved Shakhtarsk of Donetsk Oblast,

where the strike of the Ukrainian armed force supposedly killed a few commandants of the 106th Airborne


Division. On July 9, there were blasts at ammo warehouses in Irmino, Kherson and Alchevsk.

On July 10, at Chornobaivka landing strip of Kherson. We can expand this rundown significantly further. Stops in

the Russian back were generally presumably obliterated by HIMARS, while those nearer to the bleeding edges could

have been annihilated by other mounted guns frameworks. Pictures from FIRMS - NASA satellite made

for the giving an account of the timberland fires, which is likewise helpful to compute the tactical flames,

demonstrated that since Ukrainians sent off their methodic mission of obliteration of

Russian stations, altogether less gunnery discharge had been recorded on the Russian side.

On July 3, the Russian soldiers progressed from Lysychansk to catch Zolotarivka town.

In any case, the endeavor of the Oplot unit of DPR to progress close to Spartak was repulsed by

the 56th Motorized Brigade, while the 437th Motor Rifle Regiment's assault on Prudianka

was crushed by the Ukrainian National Guard. Around the same time, the legislative head of the line

area of Belgorod guaranteed that Ukraine shelled the district causing the obliteration of non military personnel

foundation and the passing of 3 regular citizens. On July 4, Russia made a few different increases in

Donbas. The 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade caught Klynove in fights against the 72nd

Automated Brigade. In the Kramatorsk course, the Russian armed force crossed the Siversky Donets

waterway. The Russian 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, the third Motor Rifle Division,

furthermore, the 90th Guards Tank Division went after the places of the 81st Airmobile Brigade

also, the 80th Air Assault Brigade on the Mazanivka-Krasnopillya-Dolyna-Bohorodychne line

accomplishing little gains towards Mazanivka. In the Donetsk heading, the Russian powers pushed the

Ukrainian lines to Siversk-Fedorivka-Bakhmut. The DPR's Sparta force's endeavor to progress close

Pobeda and Mariinka was repulsed by the Ukrainian Donbas Battalion. However, in spite of gradual

gains in various bearings, Russia was entering the period of the functional respite,

which was clear from the words Putin said during his gathering with Defense Minister Shoigu:

"[Forces] that participated in dynamic threats and made progress,

triumph … ought to rest, increment their battle capacities".

Yet, despite the fact that the functional respite stage, basically for Russian soldiers battling in Donbas,

was proclaimed, Russia proceeded with limited scope hostile procedure on this front.

On July 5, the Ukrainian military spurned one more assault at Dolyna town, while too

shielding Bilohorivka of Luhansk oblast. Russia was more effective in the Spirne heading,

where Wagner hired fighters accomplished little gains against the 118 Territorial Defense Brigade.

Likewise on this day, the United States asserted that Russia was looking to buy drones

made by Iran, which was discredited by the Islamic Republic. In any case, the White House

Public safety counselor Jake Sullivan repeated this case on July 11, it planned to express that Iran

to supply Russia with "up to a few hundred UAVs" and that Russian officers would begin

preparing on their utilization as soon as July. We presently can't seem to see any Iranian robot on the combat zone,

be that as it may, we will check whether the American cases are valid soon enough. The Iranian unfamiliar pastor denied

this case once more in his call with his Ukrainian partner on July 15.

July 6 was the main day starting from the beginning of the conflict,

on which the Russian Defense Ministry asserted no regional increases,

in spite of the way that conflicts were accounted for close to Dolyna, Mazanivka, Verkhniokamianske, Bilohorivka,

Hryhorivka, Spirne, Novoluhanske, Vershyna, Luhanske and Lozove.

On July 7, Ukraine obliterated a scaffold among Novobohdanivka and Troitske to confuse the

development of troops and supplies among Kherson and different fronts. On the Kherson front, the 109th

Regional Defense Brigade repulsed the attack of the 127th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade close

Dobrianka. Around the same time, President Putin attempted to pass certainty on to the parliamentary pioneers

of Russia and its kin: "Today we hear that they need to overcome us on the combat zone. What can you

say, let them attempt. We have heard commonly that the West needs to battle us to the last Ukrainian.

This is a misfortune for the Ukrainian public, however it appears to be that everything is going towards this.

Everybody ought to know that, overall, we haven't begun anything yet vigorously".


On July 8, after a few endeavors, the LPR units figured out how to make progress against the Kalionouski.

Regiment toward Verkhnokamyanske. On the next day, Wagner soldiers of fortune

directed one more hostile towards Spirne without progress. A few additional such goes after would occur

for the rest of the month trying to move towards Sieversk, however without much to show for.

The 31st Guards Airborne Brigade attempted to foster its progress in Klynove as well,

be that as it may, couldn't catch Vesela Dolyna. The accompanying a few days proceeded

with limited scope commitment on a few fronts. Conflicts revealed in Hryhorivka and

Dolyna didn't break the impasse, yet the eleventh Motor Rifle Regiment of the DPR civilian army

pushed back the 30th Mechanized Brigade in Dolomitne close to the Vuhlehirsk Power Plant.

However, while the Ukrainian armed force was under proceeded with tension from the Russian armed force in Donbas, they

planned to catch energy on the war zone by acquiring accomplishment on another front. On July 10,

President Zelensky requested a counter-going after activity to free the Kherson oblast.

With this declaration, the annihilation of the Russian supplies on this front heightened,

as impacts of ammo stations in Tokmak and Nova Kakhovka were accounted for on July 11 and later.

Before long, the Ukrainian armed force repulsed Russian attacks in Krasnopillia,

Mariinka, Mazanivka, Ivanivka, Dolyna, Dovhenke, Kodema, and Vershyna.

At this stage, Russia was still in the period of functional delay after lengthy and crushing

fights for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, however kept leading limited scope activities

to test for shortcomings in the Ukrainian guards. On July 11 the US government

declared an extra 1.7 billion in help to Ukraine. By and large, the United States has up until this point

given around 7.3 billion bucks worth of help to Ukraine starting from the beginning of the conflict.

On July 15, reports of the Russian refocusing at Kramatorsk heading for the Siversk hostile

arisen, which ended up being a sign of the finish of the functional delay for the Russian armed force,

as, on the next day, the Russian safeguard serve Shoigu requested to build the

force of their tactical procedure on all headings in the front line. However this

was not reflected by any regional changes on the ground, as Russian assaults on Kodema,

Bilohorivka, Spirne, Vershyna, Dolomitne, Novoluhanske, Verkhniokamianska, Berestove,

Vuhlehirsk Power Plant and different areas brought about no sort of forward leap.

On nowadays a few uplifting news for the Ukrainian armed force was declared,

as the Ministry of Defense educated about the appearance regarding the principal M270 MLRS to Ukraine,

which as indicated by them "will be great organization for HIMARS on the war zone".

Besides, US senator Adam Kinzinger expressed that the US House of Representatives distributed 100

million bucks for the preparation of Ukrainian pilots on US warriors, which is a pointer

that the United States is examining giving their contender planes to Ukraine.

On July 22 White House Press Secretary, John Kirby affirmed that the United States could give the

US-made military airplane to Ukraine. Yet, on July 17, surprising news came from President Zelensky,

who excused the Head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Ivan Bakanov,

also, the Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova. This was made sense of by many workers

of these designs taking part in a joint effort with Russian powers starting from the beginning of the conflict.

On July 19, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada affirmed this choice. On July 19, the Russian endeavored

hostile activities close to Udy, Spirne, Hryhorivka, Semyhirya, Vuhlehirsk Power Plant, Vershyna,

etc, were completely repulsed. Russia's just effective activity was the halfway catch of

the town of Pokrovske close to Bakhmut, where the 90th Guards Tank Division pushed back

the tenth Mountain Brigade. Additionally on this day, Ukraine hit the Antonivsky span interfacing

Kherson to the Zaporizhia oblast with HIMARS. The extension was intensely harmed by this strike,

yet, might in any case fill the need of a significant stockpile line of Russian soldiers in Kherson.

Ukraine expected to obliterate it as a piece of its activity to free Kherson.

On July 20, the Russian armed force kept testing the Ukrainian protections in a few headings

absent a lot of progress. The attack of Wagner towards Ivano-Daryivka was repulsed by the

118th Territorial Defense Brigade, and the assault of the DPR units on Novoselivka Druha

was repulsed by the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade, while the 136th Guards

Engine Rifle Brigade couldn't overwhelm the Ukrainian National Guard in Mykilske.

Albeit the first arrangement of the Russian order on driving the breakdown of the Ukrainian state

simply by entering the nation completely fizzled, the brutal effect of the conflict on the Ukrainian economy

is for certain. On July 21, Ukraine needed to degrade its public cash by 25%

because of the continuous attack. However, the Western vows for more military help proceeded.

On July 21, the UK Secretary of Defense, Ben Wallace promised extra 50000 big guns

shells, counter-battery radar frameworks, and many robots to the Ukrainian Army,

while on the following day, the United States reported another guide bundle to the Ukrainian Army worth 270

million bucks, which included HIMARS frameworks, GMLRS Rockets for themselves and 580 Phoenix Ghost


drones. However, the US additionally emphasized its position not to give long-range rockets like ATACMS

with a scope of 300 kilometers. Two remarkable occasions of July 22 were on the conciliatory front. Lithuania

lifted the restriction on transportation of endorsed merchandise to Kaliningrad over the Lithuanian land,

lightening the tension of a possible showdown among Russia and the NATO part

state. In particular, an arrangement among Ukraine and Russia settled upon through the intervention of

Turkey and the UN, concerning the protected product of the Ukrainian grain to the worldwide business sectors

can assist the world with keeping away from a potential intense food deficiency. However, on the following day of marking

of this understanding, Russia struck the Odesa Sea Trade Port with Kalibr rockets,

making further doubt with respects Russia's goals on really understanding this arrangement.

On July 20-25, weighty fights seethed around the Vuhlehirsk Power Plant.

Russia planned to catch this region to get to the M03 thruway prompting Bakhmut.

The DPR civilian army units and Wagner hired soldiers figured out how to push back the 30th Mechanized Brigade

from its positions and catch the Vuhlehirsk Power Plant and Novoluhanske on July 25. Russian

attacks on Ivano-Daryivka, Verkhnokamyanske, Spirne were not as fruitful. On July 22,

Ukraine proceeded with its counter-hostile activities in Kherson. The 109th Territorial Defense Brigade

shielded the bridgehead on the Eastern Bank of the River Inhulets close to Davydiv Brid against the

attack of the seventh Guards Mountain Air Assault Division. Alongside that, there were reports of

the development of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade south of Vysokopillia, Kherson Oblast, which supposedly

encircled 1000-2000 Russian warriors of conceivably the eleventh Guards Airborne Brigade. The reports

of the encompassing of the Russian units were not affirmed later, yet they demonstrated that Ukrainian

troops were making acquires toward this path. The Kherson Oblast Administration official

Serhiy Khlan asserted that the Ukrainian powers had freed a few undefined settlements

in Kherson Oblast, while Foreign Policy journalist Jack Detsch referred to the US Defense official,

who expressed that on July 15-22, Ukraine freed bits of Russian-involved towns in Kherson.

On July 23, the Ukrainian military struck another stock line connecting Kherson to the remainder of the

involved domain, the extension in Daryivka town among Kherson and Nova Kakhovka.

On July 26, the President of the European Commission von der Leyen expressed the expectation of

the EU part states to diminish gas utilization by 15%. The insecurity of supply through the

Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline will create additional worry for the European chiefs,

as Europe prepared for gas gravity to have the option to endure Russian tension with respect to gas

supplies. On this day, Ukraine likewise struck the Antonivsky span in Kherson by and by,

making it unusable, alongside hitting a Russian boundary designated spot in Bryansk oblast with

Switchblade 300 dallying ammo. The strike on the Antonivsky Bridge had constrained Russia to construct a

boat span under the Antonivsky scaffold to assist with shielding it from airstrikes. On July 26-28, conflicts

around Spirne, Sviati Hory, Verkhnokamyanske, Semyhirya, Kodema, Dovhenke, Sloviansk,

what's more, Soledar didn't bring about the Russian development. Right now, the Russian armed force likewise heightened

its endeavors toward Avdiivka, where the DPR units put weighty squeeze on the 110th Territorial

Safeguard Brigade, and the 56th Motorized Brigade. The Ukrainian armed force likewise held fast in the

Bruskynske-Bilohirka region in Kherson Oblast. The greatest addition of the Russian armed force on nowadays

was the development of Wagner and nonconformist DPR units in the Vidrodzhennya-Vershyna heading.

Yet, they had neglected to catch Vershyna for the rest of July totally. Their further endeavors to

push back the Ukrainian safeguards close to Sloviansk, Sieversk, Avdiivka, Mariinka, Soledar, and Bakhmut

brought about no critical regional additions for the rest of the month.

The greatest outcome of the Russian Army on the last day of July

was the catch of Semyhirya by the DPR units.

The most dubious occasion toward the finish of July occurred because of the blast of the

Olenivka confinement office of Ukrainian POWs, some of whom were Azov warriors.

The blast killed in excess of 50 Ukrainian POWs, for which the two sides accused one another.

Ukrainians contend that POWs were explicitly moved to the structure where the blast occurred

a couple of days before the occurrence. Examiner Oliver Alexander later introduced proof appearance

that Azov regiment POWs were housed in one more structure inside the Olenivka camp as late as June

setting Ukrainian cases. The solicitation of the ICRC to visit the confinement place up until this point

had been dismissed by the Russian specialists. On the last day of July, Russia blamed Ukraine

of a robot strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet base camp in Sevastopol in the involved Crimea,

which harmed 5 individuals. Ukraine put this on Russia as another misleading banner assault.

All through July Ukraine made little gains in the Kherson oblast, continuously crushing

through Russian guards, while likewise annihilating its provisions and strategic lines around here.

Ukraine's development in Kherson is like the speed of the Russian development in Donbas,

which after the fall of Lysychansk was best around Bakhmut, while slowing down

in Avdiivka, Soledar, Sieversk, Sloviansk, and different headings all through July. However, the greatest

distinction is that Ukraine has less misfortunes in this hostile as opposed to Russia in its development

in Donbas. The passing pace of Ukrainian troopers was professed to drop to roughly 30 every day

by President Zelensky on July 22, a sharp lessening from around 100-200 everyday passings during the peak

of the Russian lobby in Donbas. The strikes on the Russian foundation by HIMARS and other

cannons frameworks on the Kherson and Donbas fronts agonizingly affect Russian capability.

The circumstance in the Kharkiv and Zaporizhian fronts had stayed stable in July as it looks

like neither of the sides is prepared to convey powers adequate to break the impasse in

these bearings. Labor and hardware misfortunes kept on mounting for the two sides.

On July 20, the CIA Chief, William Burns asserted 15k passings in the Russian Army,

while as per the Congressional sources, they were informed about near 75000 killed

what's more, injured. There had been no new reports and claims of Ukrainian losses in July. Agreeing

to the ORYX military blog, these are the outwardly affirmed misfortunes of the Russian gear by July

31: 916 tanks, 1775 vehicles, 101 bases and correspondence stations, 14 weighty mortars, 219

ordnance pieces, 94 various rocket launchers, 38 airplanes, 49 helicopters, and 101 robots,


furthermore, the Russian armed force arrived at a questionable achievement of 5000 vehicles lost in this conflict. On the

Ukrainian side, the outwardly affirmed hardware misfortunes are the accompanying: 232 tanks, 518 vehicles,

7 garrisons and correspondence stations, 91 mounted guns pieces, 20 various rocket launchers,

39 airplanes, 11 helicopters, and 28 robots. Albeit the global circumstance in the

Balkans and around Taiwan kept on leftover tense, Ukraine stayed the focal point of worldwide

consideration in July and there is no apparent upside to that contention.

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