Reuters news agency quoted three sources as saying that the US is about to reach an agreement to provide Kiev with JASSM cruise missiles with a range of 300 km and the decision will be announced this November.
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| US JASSM missile. (Source: Getty Images) |
JASSM is stealthy and can strike farther than most other missiles currently in Kiev's arsenal.
According to US officials, the provision of JASSM missiles could significantly change the “strategic landscape of the conflict”, as a large part of Russian territory is within range of these extremely powerful precision-guided weapons.
Military analysts say the use of JASSM missiles could push Russian staging areas and supply depots hundreds of kilometers away.
If launched near the northern border of Ukraine and Russia, they could strike military targets as far away as Voronezh and Bryansk. In the south, they could be used to attack airfields or naval facilities in the Crimean peninsula.
However, at present, the JASSM missile is only integrated on US-made aircraft. Ukraine can use F-16 aircraft, each of which can carry two cruise missiles.
Meanwhile, a US official said there were efforts to make the JASSM work with non-US-made fighter jets that Ukraine has, but they did not specify which aircraft they were talking about.
Sources note that the US administration has not yet made a final decision on JASSM, but if approved, Ukraine will have to wait several months until Washington “resolves technical issues.”
Neither Russia, the United States nor Ukraine have commented on the above information from Reuters . Earlier, on November 17, US President Joe Biden for the first time allowed Ukraine to use Washington's long-range ATACMS missiles to attack Russian territory, marking a change in the policy of providing weapons to Kiev just 2 months before Mr. Biden's term ends.
The move has sparked a furious response from Russia. Moscow used its new Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile to strike military targets in Ukraine’s Dnipro on November 21, in response to Kiev’s first ATACMS attack.
In a related development, on November 24, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev announced that the country could transfer nuclear technology to countries hostile to the US, in the context of Western media proposing to provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
"The Western media is clamoring to propose that the United States provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine. A great idea, especially in the context of Russia's new doctrine of nuclear deterrence. We still have to think about who are America's potential enemies, the countries to which we can transfer our nuclear technology," he noted.
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