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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby confirmed on Monday that Ukraine is allowed to use US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles to fire at targets in the western Russian region of Kursk.
“Right now, they are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves on an immediate need basis. And right now, understandably, that’s taking place in and around Kursk, and the Kursk Oblast,” Kirby told reporters.
After the publication of the first reports that the Biden administration had quietly greenlit ATACMS strikes against Russia on November 17, officials in Washington spent days ducking the issue, with State Department spokesman Matthew Miller telling a news conference last Monday that he would “not…speak to or confirm any policy changes.”
As recently as November 21, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Signh said she “still [didn’t] have anything to announce or confirm” on that score, promising to provide an update “if there is more to share.”
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