With US OK, Ukraine Hits Russia's Belgorod in Massive Rocket Attack https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-biden-missiles/2024/06/02/id/1167133/?ns_mail_uid=6027034f-006f-40ef-b94b-fe4719b97a24&ns_mail_job=DM631659_06022024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0101027mqpov After gaining approval from the Biden administration, Ukraine reportedly used U.S. High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to hit targets in the Russian city of Belgorod, 20 miles north of the Russia-Ukraine border in southern Russia. “This is a welcome step that will allow us now to better protect Ukraine and Ukrainians from Russian terror and attempts to expand the war,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote right before the attack, Forbes reported. The onslaught included potentially dozens of 660-pound rockets, each ranging as far as 57 miles with 50 pounds of high explosives, raining on Belgorod, according to the Forbes report. State media claimed air-defense batteries shot down 14 rockets, and there is some evidence of rocket fragments on the ground, Forbes and other reports indicated. It’s unclear how much damage the raid inflicted — and, more to the point, how much damage it inflicted on military targets. Other independent military observers confirmed the use of HIMARS. "Pieces of Guided-Multiple Launch Rocket System (GM