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Home / Military analysis / What does Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. weapons mean?
Military analysis, Europe and Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine‑Russia

November 19, 2024

What does Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use longer-range U.S. weapons mean?

Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, said the U.S. decision would not alter the course of the war.

“To really impose costs on Russia, Ukraine would need large stockpiles of ATACMS, which it doesn’t have and won’t receive because the United States’ own supplies are limited,” she said.

“Moreover, the biggest obstacle Ukraine faces is a lack of trained and ready personnel, a challenge that neither the United States nor its European allies can solve and that all the weapons in the world won’t overcome,” she added.

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