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The Pentagon about defending Ukraine against long-range strikes on the Russian Federation: ATACMS is primarily limited

The US Department of Defense said that the fence on the stagnation of the American armor by Ukraine for distant No further strikes on the territory The aggressor country of Russia is explained by several reasons. Among them are a number of ATACMS missiles.

RBC-Ukraine reported this in response to the statement of the Pentagon intercessor Sabrina Singh during the briefing.

Responding to the requests of journalists calls from the Ukrainian side to be removed “taboo” on long-range strikes on targets in the Russian Federation, a representative of the US Department of Defense repeated yesterday’s words of a representative of the White House due to the significant distance from the place of expansion of the Russian aviation.

“According to our intelligence estimates, 90% of Russian pilots who launch planned bombs and missiles across Ukraine are located at airfields located 300 km from the territory controlled by Ukraine,” she said.

So rank, added Singh, these airfields “are now moving beyond the ATACMS range.”

“In this way, ATACMS will not be able to reach many airfields, and therefore, the problems created by gliding bombs, you know, will be eliminated. Yes, we said that the Russian troops had been handed over these airfields are far away,” she said.

So, said a representative of the US Defense Department, the influx of such strikes “will be even insignificant and therefore very little strategic value.”

And to clarify what journalists asked, what is the risk for Ukraine of long-range strikes on the Russian Federation by American armor, either through the limited number of ATACMS or through the “fear of escalation” ї”, Singh stated, scho “giblets”

“The number of ATACMS is limited. This is not the case – there is not a great number of such possibilities of a great radius of action. And, of course, one thing that we will evaluate again – this is escalation, and this is what we are talking about That's what they said right from the start. , a whole bunch of these speeches, connected at once,” she said.

The Pentagon representative added that the ZSU “has already successfully victorious and ATACMS, in order to turn their territories to Every day and get together.”

“We believe that they have the ability to unite them on the battlefield. You know, they really have a serious outcry at the Assembly, and we will continue to work with them in order to straighten out some of the fiery tension , yaku stinks, ooh “Whose direction,” said Singh.

“Taboo” from the United States for Ukraine on long-range strikes on Russia

It seems likely that a number of Ukraine’s Ukrainian partners gave Kiev long-range missiles from capable of hitting targets within a radius of 300 km, based on the limited use of the ZSU of this formation for attacks on the territory of Russia.

Previously, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov stated that Kiev transferred the list to the United States targets for heavy ATACMS strikes on the Russian Federation.< /p>

Dodamo, earlier RBC-Ukraine reached out to a military expert to find out what might be behind the fence at Zakhod before missile strikes on the Russian Federation.

More details about the fence at Zakhod for long-range attacks on Russia – read our material for these instructions.

For terms and important information about Russia’s war against Ukraine, read on the RBC-Ukraine channel in Telegram.

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