The Guardian reports citing The Wall Street Journal.
According to the media, a senior Ukrainian defence official told the newspaper that Kyiv had received positive signs in recent weeks that the US had come around on the ATACMS system. Ukrainian officials have argued that the long-range missiles are needed, in part, to strike into Crimea, the peninsula occupied by Russia that Russian forces are using as a base to launch Iranian-made drones, according to public statements by the US and its European allies.
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In public, military-political leadership of Ukraine constantly pushes forward the request to the United States to finally provide the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These missiles can be launched from an M142 HIMARS or M270, and have a firing range of up to 300 km (190 miles).
Such missiles would allow to increase the operational depth of destruction of targets in the rear of the russian occupation army in Ukraine. The missiles range is enough for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike russian targets far behind the front lines as well as to target supply routes to weaken russian troops. And that is why the citizens of Ukraine fervently hope that their army will receive ATACMS in order to speed up the liberation of the territories occupied by the russians.
Defense Express reported earlier on What Modifications of ATACMS Missile the USA Had Till Now, and Which of Them Was the Most Formidable to the Likes of russian Army. We also explained Why the Transfer of ATACMS to Ukraine Did Not Pose Any Threat to NATO.
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