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U.S. restrictions put key Russian air bases out of firing range, officials say
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/21/ukraine-firing-range-us-weapons-russia/
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Those airfields are used by Russian jets that drop the deadly glide bombs now inflicting the greatest damage on military positions and civilians.
“The U.S. has agreed to allow Ukraine to fire U.S.-provided weapons into Russia across where Russian forces are coming to attempt to take Ukrainian territory,” said a Pentagon spokesman, Maj. Charlie Dietz.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington-based think tank, reported this month that the U.S. policy limiting Ukraine’s usage of American weapons in Russia had effectively created “a vast sanctuary … which Russia exploits to shield its combat forces, command and control, logistics, and rear area support services that the Russian military uses to conduct its military operations in Ukraine.”
Since the shift in U.S. policy, Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has experienced much-needed respite after months of relentless attacks by Russian missiles, local officials said.
Even under the new rules, however, President Biden has refused to greenlight the use of long-range U.S. weapons, such as the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, leaving Ukraine to continue to rely on its own homemade drones for strikes deeper inside Russia.
Maj. Nadiia Zamryha, press officer of the 14th Brigade, said troops fighting near Kupyansk in the northeast of the Kharkiv region continue to come under regular attack from antiaircraft missiles, glide bombs and unguided rockets.
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