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In September 2024, U.S. president Joe Biden met with British prime minister Keir Starmer to discuss allowing Ukraine to use long-range weapons in Russia. [8] On 16 November 2024, Biden allowed Ukraine to use long-range missiles. [9] Permission for the US ATACMS strikes are limited to Russian and North Korean forces in Kursk Oblast. [10]
Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double the striking distance — up to 300 kilometers (190 miles) — that it had with the mid-range version of the weapon ...
Ukraine says the missiles will help fuel their counteroffensive as it heads into the muddy and colder winter months, enabling troops to strike behind Russian lines while staying out of firing range.
Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, Nov. 21, 2024. / Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Region/Anadolu/Getty
The missile launch took place as Ukraine marked 1,000 days of war, with battle-fatigued troops at the front, its cities besieged by airstrikes, a fifth of Ukrainian territory in Moscow’s hands ...
On 11 May 2023 it published photographs and said that it had already been used to accrue losses by Russian forces during the Russo-Ukrainian War. On 30 May, it was used to conduct a series of drone strikes in suburban Moscow. [2] [3] The drone reportedly has a range of 600 to 1,000 km, and its warhead is a KZ-6 shaped charge. [2]
Last fall, the US first sent Ukraine the mid-range variant of the ATACMS missile system, which can reach about 100 miles, while the longer-range version can reach as far as 190 miles.
Russia has fired a new intermediate-range ballastic missile at Ukraine in what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called a “severe escalation” of Moscow’s invasion.