The US secretly shipped ATACMS missiles to Ukraine last month, which have already been used to destroy a Russian military airfield in Crimea and troop concentrations in Zaporizhzhia oblast.
The implication is that these missiles have a devastating impact and their deployment is a closely guarded secret. JL
Courtney Kube reports in NBC:
The U.S. provided Ukraine with powerful long-range ballistic missiles for the first time earlier this month, and its military has already used them twice in the last week against Russian forces. The first strike was 100 miles inside Crimea’s border on the morning of April 17, targeting a Russian military airfield. The Ukrainian military used the U.S.-provided ATACMS, for the second time Tuesday night, targeting Russian forces east of the southeastern Ukrainian town of Berdyansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The administration did not reveal at the time that it was sending Ukraine the long-range missiles for operational security reasons.