ATACMS missiles are crucial, but the Russians could have prepared, analysts say

Analysts note that the new US military aid worth around one billion dollars, which was signed in Wednesday by President Joe Biden after being approved by Congress, should start flowing to the Ukrainian front within a few weeks.

It’s two, not Rusov oekvali. However, the situation on the battlefield will continue to worsen until the Ukrainian forces are able to acquire and use a sufficient amount of military equipment. In the near future, the Ukrainian forces may have problems with the defense against Russian efforts in the east of Yaru and northwest of Avdijivka, the city said at first.

Russia has not made significant progress on the hundreds of kilometers long front in recent months, but first conquered Avdijivka in the Donetsk region and aims to control the nearby Asiv Yar, a stronghold of the Ukrainian army. According to him, the situation in the city is complicated, but under control.

Experts say that the supply of ATACMS missiles in sufficient quantities to Ukrainian forces could weaken Russian logistics and threaten Russian aircraft and munitions stores deep in the ground. The presence of ATACMS missiles could force the Russian command to choose between fortified military depots and their further dispersion throughout the occupied land of Ukraine, including ISW.

However, he also noted that a certain amount of American help could have given the Russian forces time to reduce the potential operational consequences that the deployment of ATACMS could mean.

It is possible that Russia has adapted to Ukraine’s potential new black capabilities after using ATACMS in June 2023, as it remains unclear whether the occupier’s ammunition stockpiles are sufficiently fortified or dispersed, analysts said, referring to last fall, when the U.S. supplied Ukraine with a variant of the cluster bomb ATACMS with a short range to flow to Russia to fly near Beransk and Luhansk.

These holes could also prompt Russia to attack aircraft from the front lines. Even though it would especially concern Russian helicopters, not airplanes with wings, which have a much longer range, I mean ISW.

Analysts warn that Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics targets or the Russian air force in the ground will likely have operational significance only if the Ukrainians coordinate them with ground operations to take advantage of the weakened Russian capabilities as a result of the strikes.

The AP agency reported in the middle that Ukraine secretly received long-range ATACMS missiles at the end of April and used them for the first time last week to bomb military airfields in the Russian-annexed Crimea. According to the Holy House, Ukraine has pledged to use the steles only within its territory and not on the territory of Russia.

With a range of 300 kilometers, the new missiles have twice the range of those that the US has supplied to Ukraine since the beginning of the year, and Kiev has been trying very hard.

American President Joe Biden approved the addition of the ATACMS long-range missile series, and a significant number of them were included in the military aid package worth 300 million dollars (almost 7.1 billion crowns), which the USA announced at the time. It is not clear how many stars the new military aid package contained, nor how many are included in the current one.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared on Thursday that ATACMS deliveries to Ukraine will not change as a result of the war.