Ukrainian forces will be able to use a newly delivered, coveted long-range missile system, called Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), to more effectively target Russian forces in occupied Crimea, senior Pentagon officials said on Thursday. The missile system has a 100-mile range and is armed with wide-spreading cluster munitions. The new system can reach deeper into Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine and target supply nodes for Russian forces in the southeast. The goal for the new longer-range systems is to put more pressure on Crimea, a hub of Russian air and ground forces. The Biden administration sent the longer-range ATACMS secretly, to avoid alerting the Russians.
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