Related Press has said that Ukraine has doubtless run out of all long-range ATACMS ballistic missiles.

Supply: Related Press, citing an American official and a Ukrainian MP who spoke on situation of anonymity

Quote: "Officers acknowledged Wednesday that Kyiv not has any of the longer-range Military Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, missiles. In response to a US official and a Ukrainian lawmaker on the nation’s defence committee, Ukraine has run out of the ATACMs."

Particulars: The American official said that the US had supplied Ukraine with fewer than 40 of those missiles in whole and that they’d run out in Ukraine by the top of January.

"Senior US defence leaders, together with the earlier Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, had made it clear that solely a restricted variety of the ATACMs could be delivered and that the US and NATO allies thought-about different weapons to be extra priceless within the struggle," AP reported.

For ference: Relying on the modification, ATACMS can have a spread of 140 to 300 kilometres.

Background:

• On 17 November 2024, The New York Occasions reported that at the moment US President Joe Biden had, for the primary time, allowed the Ukrainian army to make use of long-range ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory.
• On 19 November 2024, Forbes Ukraine reported that Ukraine’s defence forces had, for the primary time, performed a strike on Russian territory utilizing US long-range ATACMS missiles.
• A couple of days later, on 25 November 2024, OSINT (Open Supply Intelligence) analysts discovered that Ukraine had, for the primary time, struck a army airfield in Russia’s Kursk Oblast with cluster warheads hooked up to US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles.
• The Russian Defence Ministry acknowledged that three ATACMS long-range missiles launched by Ukraine's Armed Forces on 23 and 25 November had reached their targets in Kursk Oblast.

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