White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby yesterday, for the first time, confirmed the change in U.S. policy on Ukrainian use of ATACMS long-range ballistic missiles. “Right now, they are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves, you know, in an immediate-need basis. And right now, you know, understandably, that’s taking place in and around Kursk, in the Kursk Oblast. I’d let the Ukrainians speak to their use of ATACMS and their targeting procedures, and what they’re using them for and how well they’re doing,” he told reporters during a White House conference call. “But nothing has changed about the—well, obviously we did change the guidance and gave them guidance that they could use them, you know, to strike these particular types of targets.”