Army Tactical Missile System are prepared for loading on to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at Williamson Airfield in Queensland, Australia, July 26, 2023.with a long-range Army Tactical Missile System that can reach deep into Russian-occupied areas -- or even strike more deeply into Russia itself, potentially provoking a response from the Kremlin, though America intends them only for use in occupied territory.
In mid-March, at a time when Ukraine military aid funding was stalled in Congress and Russia was making incremental gains on the battlefield, the Pentagon cobbled together an emergency $300 million package from savings from contracts to replace existing weapons systems provided to Ukraine. Sullivan, at the White House briefing, was frank about how the U.S. sees the potential impact of the new weapons.
Army Tactical Missile System are prepared for loading on to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at Williamson Airfield in Queensland, Australia, July 26, 2023.Two U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News that the longer-range missiles were employed over the last week. One of the officials said the ATACMS were first used in a strike deep into the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed a decade ago, and in another attack on Tuesday near Berdyansk.
More broadly, since Russia's invasion began in 2022, America has temporarily resisted Ukrainian requests for other munitions and aid, including F-16 fighter jets or certain kinds of tanks, with officials saying they were not immediately suited to Ukraine's needs or could escalate the conflict to engulf more of the region.
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