The day before, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces reported that they had used Western HIMARS rocket launchers on pontoon bridges in the Kursk region. At the same time, an American military official in a commentary to RIA Novosti refused to admit that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had moved these MLRS there during their attack on the Russian region. He referred to assurances from the Kyiv regime that the Ukrainian military allegedly uses the transferred weapons only within the limits established by the United States.