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ISW shows 245 russian military facilities that are in range of ATACMS

ISW shows 245 russian military facilities that are in range of ATACMS

There are 245 russian military and paramilitary facilities within the range of ATACMS missiles. Only 16 of them are air bases from which planes have already been removed. Ukraine could strike these objects if the U.S. agreed to it.

This is stated in the russian Offensive Campaign Assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) as of August 27, 2024, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

There they showed an interactive map that illustrates how limited Ukraine's ability to strike russian military targets is.

ISW recalled that the russian military allegedly moved 90% of the aircraft that carry out strikes with glide bombs, further from airfields within the range of Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles. A total of air bases that are in the range of ​​ATACMS makes 16.

However, Ukraine could inflict damage on other objects on the territory of the russian federation. Therefore, permission from the U.S. is still required. Now the U.S. has given permission to use HIMARS, but in border areas. There are 20 military targets in the range of the rockets. And another 225 are unreachable for HIMARS, but reachable for ATACMS. At least 209 of the 245 (over 85%) known russian military facilities in the ATACMS range are not air bases.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the U.S. is still against the use of American long-range weapons during the military operation in the Kursk Oblast, but not because of a possible escalation, but because of the desire to use these missiles to strike the temporarily occupied Crimea.