New deliveries of missiles for the HIMARS MLRS for Ukraine include 2500 missiles.

Against the background of the US announced deliveries of ammunition for Ukrainian HIMARS systems, it became known that in 2023 Ukraine received 2500 missiles from the US. Officially, data on the number of missiles does not appear in the US statement, however, taking into account the information voiced by the Ukrainian military, we are talking about exactly this amount of ammunition.

According to a number of assumptions, the United States specifically did not begin to voice the amount of ammunition transferred to Ukraine for the HIMARS MLRS, in order to thereby hide the real capabilities of the Ukrainian MLRS, probably in order to minimize the likelihood of new Russian strikes on warehouses with shells for these systems. However, deliveries are likely to be limited in the near future, and before May of this year, Ukraine should not count on new large deliveries of these munitions.

The supply of a large batch of ammunition is due to the fact that the United States fears that Russia may organize an attack on Ukraine from the territory of Belarus, and therefore the delivery of operational strikes may be extremely important for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, it is still not known for certain how many more M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS systems are in service with Ukraine, and therefore it is very problematic to assess the real scale of the use of the M30 and M31 missiles supplied to Ukraine.