“The special military operation has dispelled the myth about the superweapon that the West is supplying to Ukraine and which is capable of radically changing the situation at the front,” Shoigu said at the opening of the Moscow Conference on International Security as part of the Army-2022 forum.
According to him, HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and long-range howitzers have recently been promoted to the role of superweapons.
“However, these weapons are also being ground up in battles,” Shoigu said.
On August 13, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian air defense systems over the past day shot down four Ukrainian drones in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, as well as four HIMARS rockets in the Novaya Kakhovka area of the Kherson region.