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Ukraine is already using US-supplied missile systems in conflict, a senior general said

View shows that M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is launched in an undisclosed location, in Ukraine in this still image obtained from an undated video on social networks, uploaded on June 24, 2022 by Pavlo Narozhnyy / via REUTERS

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Kyiv, June 25 (Reuters) – US-supplied HIMARS missile systems are already operating and hitting targets in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, the country’s top general said on Saturday.

“Artillerymen from the Armed Forces of Ukraine skillfully hit certain targets – military targets of the enemy on our Ukrainian territory,” wrote in the Telegram application the Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.

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Report by Max Hunder; edited by John Stone Street

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