Mr. Jake Sullivan, US White House Security Adviser Confirmed to reporters on April 24, local time, that the United States has secretly shipped an unspecified number of strategic missile systems (ATACMS) from a Lockheed Martin warehouse to Ukraine since March to enhance security. Able to fight with Russia only in occupied territories After a report from US officials revealed that Ukraine used the missile, which has a maximum range of around 300 km, for the first time last week. Attack deep into the Crimean peninsula that Russia has annexed as its own territory. Including a second attack near Berdiansk. In the province of Zaporizhia on 23 April.
The weapons are part of a $300 million military aid package that Biden approved on March 12. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it Always requesting long-range missiles from allied nations. But the US Department of Defense did not send it as requested. It changed its mind after it was discovered that Russia had used missiles believed to be from North Korea to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The US government is expected to send additional missiles to Ukraine as part of a new $61 billion military aid package that Biden just signed.
