Summary:
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.
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References:
Newsweek – Ukraine Map Suggests U.S.-Supplied HIMARS Could Be Turning Tide of War:
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-map-reveals-us-american-himars-turned-tide-war-donbas-1724939#
NASA – Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS):
https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:adv;d:2022-07-12;@38.5,48.6,8z
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-himars-playing-in-ukraine/a-62567364
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