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

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"Important development" / Ukraine launches ATACMS ballistic missile
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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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