"Important development" / Ukraine launches ATACMS ballistic missile barrage towards Russia

2025-11-18 21:24:12Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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The Ukrainian military announced that it had attacked military targets in Russia with US-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a "significant development."

Ukraine has not previously openly stated that it uses US-supplied ballistic missile systems on targets inside Russia, although the restriction on doing so was lifted by the outgoing Biden administration a year ago.

"The use of long-range attack capabilities, including systems such as ATACMS, will continue," the military general staff said in a statement on Tuesday.

Kiev received the systems in 2023, but was initially limited to using them only in its own territories, nearly a fifth of which are occupied by Russia.

Joe Biden, who was US president at the time, lifted these restrictions in November 2024, a move which was initially criticized by his successor Donald Trump.

Ukraine has requested US-made Tomahawk missiles that have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles), saying these will help bring Russia to the negotiating table.

Although Trump initially considered the idea of ??selling them to Kiev, in November he said he was "not considering" the move.


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