ATACMS Missile Attack Targets Ukraine in Russia: Map

• A new interactive map by war analysts shows 245 targets inside Russia that Ukraine could hit with ATACMS.
• The US and Western allies have banned Ukraine from using its weapons against targets inside Russia.
• Ukraine has repeatedly asked for the green light, even preparing a list of targets to convince Washington.

A new interactive map shows hundreds of targets inside Russia that Ukraine could hit with its US-supplied ATACMS if the White House gave it the green light to do so.

The presentation comes after months of debate between Washington and Kiev, with the former repeatedly saying that lifting restrictions on how and where Ukraine uses its US-supplied weapons will not make a difference on the battlefield. The US had long withheld ATACMS from Ukraine over fears they would escalate before finally relenting and sending them in late last year.

A static map also shows targets, as well as the ranges of different variants of ATACMS compared to guided multiple launch rocket systems (GMLRS). Both ATACMS and GMLRS can be fired by the M142 High Mobility Artillery Missile Systems (HIMARS).

Targets are defined as military and paramilitary, including air bases. As the map says, no Russian military airbases are within GMLRS range, which is not subject to the same restrictions as ATACMS.

For deep strikes, Ukraine has had to rely on indigenous systems such as long-range drones or domestic missiles.

According to the target map, the extended range of the ATACMS puts within reach a number of potential Russian targets that were previously unreachable by other Western-supplied weapons.

ISW also detailed the targets and their approximate locations in a list format. All of this, according to ISW, is “to illustrate the extent to which US restrictions on Ukraine’s use of ATACMS limit Ukraine’s ability to strike critical military infrastructure.”

Ukraine and the US have been in a month-long debate over the potential use of ATACMS to strike targets on Russian soil. The US has maintained a position that if it allows Ukraine to do so, it would not change the status of the war or help Ukraine’s ground forces, primarily because Russia has moved many of its most important targets and his possessions back from the border and out of range. ATACMS.

But Ukraine has repeatedly asked for permission, noting that key targets are still within range and arguing that because Russia is striking targets inside Ukraine, Kiev should be able to do so as well.

Just on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “there should be no restrictions on the range of weapons for Ukraine, while terrorists have no such restrictions.”

The next day, Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon’s press secretary, told reporters that Ukraine had some cross-border strike permissions, but “as far as the long-range strike, the deep strikes in Russia, our policy has not changed.” .

This week, Ukrainian officials will present the U.S. with an adjusted list of potential Russian targets, U.S. officials told Politico, as a last resort to persuade Washington to lift restrictions on weapons the country says it is holding.