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…