{"id":84451,"date":"2022-07-21T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/video-shows-russia-failing-to-shoot-down-u-s-himars-missiles-ukraine-says"},"modified":"2022-10-18T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:56:05","slug":"video-shows-russia-failing-to-shoot-down-u-s-himars-missiles-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/video-shows-russia-failing-to-shoot-down-u-s-himars-missiles-ukraine-says","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows Russia Failing To Shoot Down U.S. HIMARS Missiles, Ukraine Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS on Kyiv&#8217;s forces continues to be felt in Ukraine after missiles fired from the United States-supplied weapons evaded Russian air defense, according to a Ukrainian official.A video tweeted by Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine&#8217;s internal affairs minister, sparked social media users to comment on how Russian-fired missiles had failed to intercept the HIMARS rockets. Gerashchenko wrote on Telegram that Russian &#8220;air defenses are unsuccessfully trying to shoot down HIMARS missiles flying towards the ammunition depot in Skadovsk.&#8221;Skadovsk is in the southern Kherson region and was where a Russian ammunition depot was reportedly destroyed on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian media.The clip also run by news outlets NEXTA and UNN shows missiles taking off followed by explosions on the horizon. Underneath his message, Gerashchenko wrote the hashtag &#8220;weapons of victory.&#8221;A Ukrainian official said that Russian forces tried and failed to shoot down U.S.-supplied M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS on Kyiv&#8217;s forces continues to be felt in Ukraine after missiles fired from the United States-supplied weapons evaded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,42,102],"class_list":["post-84451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}