Ukraine Needs Longer-Range Missiles From the US, Ambassador Says
- Shorter-range model used against ammunition storage, airfields
- Ukraine long asked for the missiles but US had held out
Members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in a military training exercise outside Kyiv.
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The Ukrainian military has attacked Russian ammunition storage and parked helicopters effectively with short-range ATACMS missiles from the US but needs longer-range versions of the weapon, according to the country’s ambassador to the US.
The missiles sent by the Biden administration, which carry cluster munitions, “have been very effective” so far, Ambassador Oksana Markarova told Bloomberg News after her address to a conference in Washington. “They make a difference on the battlefield and the more we can get the better we can prepare the battlefield.”