US Will Send ATACMS Missiles to Ukraine, Says WSJ

The US is very close to making a decision to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US and European officials.

According to the sources, the provision of ATACMS to Ukraine still needs to be approved "at the highest level".

However, there are visible signs that the White House, which has refused to send long-range weapons to Kiev, has begun to change its attitude, as it "realizes the urgency to support Ukraine in the struggle in the coming weeks."

As a Ukrainian official told the Wall Street Journal, in recent weeks "Kiev has received positive signs that the US has changed its stance on ATACMS."

The US Army's ATACMS tactical missile systems are surface-to-surface missiles with a range of about 300 kilometers, about four times longer than the missiles used by the HIMARS systems.

The Biden administration has explained to the Ukrainian side that the reluctance to send longer-range missiles is based on the fact that there are too few of them in the stocks of the US military.