On Sunday evening, Reuters reported that the US president had agreed to using ATACMS systems to attack military targets located deep inside the Russian Federation.
The Ukrainian authorities have been trying to obtain such consent for many months. The use of long-range missiles to destroy, among others, military infrastructure located several hundred kilometers from the front line was recorded in the presented by Volodymyr Zelensky the so-called “victory plan”.
According to journalists from Axios.com, citing sources in: Washingtonaccording to Joe Biden's decision, the Ukrainian army will have the possibility of conducting strikes in the Kursk regionwhere military units were deployed North Korea.
War in Ukraine. General Kraszewski: Better late than never
– Better late than never. We have all been waiting for this, a united West, including, above all, the United States Great Britain will launch a political process giving the Armed Forces the opportunity Ukrainy full use of the spectrum of capabilities of long-range ATAMCS and Storm Shadow missiles, he said.
– We certainly won't change the fate of the war with these missiles, but they will definitely be there The Armed Forces of Ukraine are able to significantly influence what will happen before the so-called winter break. There will be a slowdown in activities, especially the land component, and there will certainly be an escalation in the use of aviation and unmanned aerial systems to attack civilian critical infrastructure, he added.
At the same time, General Kraszewski noted that although the use of long-range missiles will not be a breakthrough, it will provide completely new opportunities for the Ukrainian army, which may ultimately translate into minor front-line successes.
– This is not a distance that would significantly disrupt military operations, because these are distances of up to 300 km in the case of ATACMS and up to 500 km for Strom Shadow (…) Taking into account the ranges of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be able to significantly disorganize the logistics system of the Russian Federation. They will be able to, and certainly will, affect airports and temporary bases for stationing unmanned aerial systems. They will be able to destroy and this, in my opinion, is crucial, elements of the attack group command post system Russia – he emphasized.