Need Hundreds of Missiles: ATACMS strikes can change the course of war over a few weeks - expert

Daily blows for several weeks on logistics routes, says Petro Chernyk, would weaken the advanced parts of the Russians. But for this purpose, the defense forces need to have up to two thousand ATACMS. US ATACMS missiles have proven efficiency during the Iraqi campaign.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have also achieved some success, struck by their airports with Russian aviation, but in order for these missiles to actually affect the course of hostilities in Ukraine, the Armed Forces need hundreds of such ammunition. On October 20, Military Expert Petro Chernik told this on the air of the telephone on October 20.

The analyst we will remind that US troops in Iraq used more than 600 ATACMS units in a month and a half, and on some days launched on the enemy objects from 20 to 100 rockets. Therefore, if Ukrainian troops in such quantities and for several weeks were struck on the rear of the enemy, it would have had a significant effect. "If there were a large number of these missiles, the course of the war could be changed," the expert said.

The goals of the Ukrainian forces would be logistics routes, which Russians bring ammunition, food, water and medicines to the front. Therefore, multi -day combat work on them would lead to a noticeable lack of equipment necessary for the war. "I emphasize, a few weeks of such combat work, and the advanced is banal. There are neither cartridges, nor food nor medicines. People are fighting.

Can strategically master such a goal? It is possible, but hundreds of such missiles are needed, and maybe even a thousand or two thousand. And in such a massive mode of daily work, the course of the war can be broken in a few weeks, " - summed up Chernik. Recall that according to the Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS), hostilities in Ukraine have exhausted about 40% of US PTRC Javelin and SCRC.