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- A new interactive map made by war analysts shows 245 targets inside Russia that Ukraine could hit with ATACMS.
- The US and Western allies have forbidden Ukraine from using their weapons on targets inside Russia.
- Ukraine has repeatedly asked for the green light, even preparing a list of targets to convince Washington.
A new interactive map shows hundreds of targets inside Russia that Ukraine could hit with its US-provided ATACMS if the White House gave it the green light to do so.
The presentation comes after months of debate between Washington and Kyiv, with the former repeatedly saying that lifting the restrictions on how and where Ukraine uses its US-provided weapons won’t make a difference on the battlefield. The US long withheld ATACMS from Ukraine over concerns they would be escalatory before finally relenting and sending them late last year.
According to the map, which was created by the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats project, there are 245 military targets inside Russia within range of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems Ukraine has available in its arsenal.