Russian Troop Convoy Decimated By HIMARS 20 Miles From Donbas Front Line

Increasingly, for Russian troops, there is no such thing as 'the rear' anymore. JL

David Axe reports in Trench Art:

A Russian troop convoy with military trucks and passenger buses was motoring through Makiivka, 20 miles from the front line in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, when a Ukrainian High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System took aim. The wheeled HIMARS fired several rockets, peppering the convoy with hundreds of thousands of tungsten fragments and reportedly killing 20 Russians and wounding others. “We didn’t have time to evacuate,” one survivor explained

A Russian troop convoy with at least two military trucks and three passenger buses was motoring through Makiivka, 20 miles from the front line in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, when a Ukrainian High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System took aim.

The wheeled HIMARS fired several rockets, peppering the convoy with hundreds of thousands of tungsten fragments and reportedly killing 20 Russians and wounding others.

“We didn’t have time to evacuate,” one survivor explained in a video of the bloody aftermath, helpfully translated by WarTranslated. “I did what I could—was putting out the flames, pulling people out” of the burning buses.

It was an unsually precise strike for the wheeled HIMARS and its 660-pound M30/31 rockets. “Feels like it hit the bus while it was moving,” the survivor noted.