Reporters at the Pentagon are anxiously waiting for the Biden Administration to announce the lifting of all restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied long range weapons. “President Zelenskyy said that if the United States authorized the use of long-range missiles, Ukraine could easily defeat Russia,” one reporter, mindlessly repeating Zelenskyy’s fantasies, asked Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh at the Pentagon briefing yesterday. “So why is the United States reluctant to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons?”
Singh replied: “Our intelligence assesses that 90% of Russian aircraft launching the glide bombs and the firing missiles against Ukraine are at airfields that are 300 km away from Ukrainian-controlled territory. So these airfields now put that out of ATACMS range. So ATACMS would not be able to reach these airfields, so therefore, the challenges posed by these glide bombs, you know, would still remain.” And if Ukraine were to use ATACMS against the remaining 10%, the Russians would simply move those aircraft beyond its range, she added.
