NBC-US To Send 'Small Number' Of Long-Range ATACMS Missiles To Ukraine

NBC News reporting that according to its sources US President Joe Biden informed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US will send Ukraine a small number of ATACMS long-range missiles. NBC: "For months Ukraine has asked for the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, which would give Kyiv the ability to strike targets from as far away as about 180 miles, hitting supply lines, railways, and command and control locations behind the Russian front lines."

• There remains reticence among some lawmakers and military figures regarding the provision of such missiles to Ukraine. The ability to strike deep behind enemy lines, and indeed well into the territory of the Russian Federation, has raised concerns that President Vladimir Putin could argue that the US and its allies have become directly involved in the war in Ukraine, risking a widening of the conflict.