Do NASA Maps Really Prove HIMARS Reduced Russian Artillery Strikes?
- Brian Berletic
- Thursday 18 Aug 22
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Newsweek and many others both in the mainstream Western media as well as across social media have claimed NASA maps indicating fires in Ukraine “prove” US-supplied HIMARS have reduced the number of Russian artillery strikes.
However, a quick visit to NASA’s publicly available map (the link is in the references below) indicates that the number of fires varies greatly day-to-day including some days with hardly any fires at all long before the first HIMARS was delivered to Ukraine.
References:
Newsweek – Ukraine Map Suggests U.S.-Supplied HIMARS Could Be Turning Tide of War:
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-map-….
NASA – Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS):
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/…
DW – Could HIMARS turn the tide of war in Ukraine? (indicates first HIMARS strike took place in late June 2022):
https://www.dw.com/en/what-role-are-h…

Brian Berletic
Brian Joseph Thomas Berletic, is an ex- US Marine Corps independent geopolitical researcher and writer based in Bangkok, writing under the pen name “ Tony Cartalucci ” along with several others.
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