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Ukraine war: Kyiv uses longer-range US missiles for first time

www.bbc.com Ukraine war: Kyiv uses longer-range US missiles for first time

Missiles secretly delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say.

Ukraine has begun using longer-range ballistic missiles against Russia that were secretly provided by the US, American officials have confirmed.

The weapons were sent as part of a previous US support package, and arrived this month. Officials said they were not announced publicly to maintain Ukraine's "operational security".

They have already been used at least once to strike Russian targets in occupied Crimea.

Further US aid is now heading to Kyiv.

More American weaponry is expected to be sent imminently, after President Joe Biden signed off on Wednesday a new package of economic and military support for Ukraine worth $61bn (£49bn).

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Slava Ukraini!

I hate that the U.S. had to give Israel a bunch of money too, but at least Ukraine is going to have a chance!
- I don't the US supports genocide, but !
  
  Lmao
  
  I never said I hoped the U.S. supported genocide. I literally said the opposite.
  
  Wow: joined 6h ago.
  
  Yeah Ivan, we're coming for you.
Cool. I hope they can beat back Russia and retake Crimea, but it's not going to be easy.
- Lol.
  
  Every military analyst is saying this won't even be enough to stop Russia, just slow them down.
- The Russia’s military budget is not quite clear, but for 2024 the most cited number I see is $140B. ~2.5 times larger than this bill. If we include the fact that purchase parity would adjust this to even larger difference, on can see that at this point of funding Ukraine can think only about maintaining status quo at best.
  
  Ukraine should be getting support from more than just the US though, if you include their own military budget and EU funding what would the total number be?
  
  Sure, but also keep in mind how much of that budget will be redirected to yachts and dachas.
  
  Russia's money has to cover their global assets. Ukraine is only focused on Ukraine.
  
  How many billions of dollars worth of planes and ships has Ukraine lost? Several? Now compare that to Russian losses... many hundreds of planes and ships have been destroyed, most of them worth at minimum tens of millions of dollars.
  
  Just look at the AWACS, strategic bombers, and large ships destroyed. Billions and billions of dollars with a handful of those, and nothing like that has been lost by Ukraine.
All the shit we built to beat up Ivan is finally getting used, ya love to see it. Can’t wait till the F-16s show up and they can start lobbing NATO munitions from the air

Slava Ukraini
- ya love to see it
  
  I mean, its a nightmare of death and destruction not scene since Vietnam. But other than that, yeah, very cool.
  
  Oh it’s decidedly not cool, but they didn’t choose to be invaded. It’s good that we can give them a set of tools built expressly for this purpose and give them a chance against a much larger foe.
  
  For the first time since the 1940s we are unironically delivering freedom and I think that actually is cool. Shit situation and the Israel bill is a horrible albatross but I’m happy for the UA grunts in the mud. Slava Ukraini
  
  Once I watched this high school kid hang outside of a middle school with a bat waiting for a kid.
  
  That kid came out, got the bat away from him and chased him off.
  
  Ya love to see it.
  
  They mean they love to see a brutal, illegal invasion being stopped.
- It's been getting used for over a year now.
  
  The ones that the article says just arrived this month?
The missiles were used for the first time by the Ukrainians on April 17, during an attack on the Russian Dzahnkoi Air Base in the Crimea. The next day they used them on a Russian mustering point in the Crimea.
On a somewhat unrelated note I have a Ukrainian classmate who had to return to Ukraine to renew his passport (they suspended consular services outside Ukraine). He has about 2 weeks before turning 18 and being legally banned from leaving the country. Hope the best for him
- That's horrible. I wish the new supply could bring a sudden end to this somehow.
Get 'em!!
ATACMS is a beast. They look like rockets: https://mil.in.ua/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screenshot_3-10.jpg
- I mean, they are rockets
  
  Yes, but they look like one too.
- Yes. Everyone knows a rocket must have a pointy end
Sad that Olaf Sholz continues to deny ~~Storm Shadow~~ Taurus missiles to Ukraine. They need all the long range strike capability they can get.
- Aren't Storm Shadows the British missiles? And we already gave them to Ukraine ages ago. I think the German ones are called Taurus?
  
  Oh you're right. Thanks, fixed. Got my long range missiles confused.
Nice wasted missiles
- 4 hour old account. 🤡
  
  Stay mad boris
- Look at you wasting oxygen, food, and all the rest.

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