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canetoad

(19,347 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:42 AM Sunday

Pentagon restricts Ukraine's use of US missiles against Russia: report

Source: The Age Au.

Washington: The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using US-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv’s ability to employ these weapons in its defence against Moscow’s invasion, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing US officials.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

The news came as US President Donald Trump has grown more frustrated publicly over the three-year-old war and his inability to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, and after he slammed Biden-era policies that prevented Ukraine from launching full-scale attacks on Russia.

After his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin and a subsequent meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to produce observable progress, Trump said on Friday (Saturday AEST) that he was again considering slapping Russia with economic sanctions or, alternatively, walking away from the peace process.



Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/pentagon-restricts-ukraine-s-use-of-us-missiles-against-russia-report-20250824-p5mpc1.html



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Pentagon restricts Ukraine's use of US missiles against Russia: report (Original Post) canetoad Sunday OP
Time for Ukraine to MrWowWow Sunday #1
Agree 100% hueymahl Sunday #3
Too late for that wolfie001 Sunday #5
Never too late for peace hueymahl Yesterday #10
"Vilkha MLRS - Ukraine's locally produced "HIMARS" based on the Soviet Smerch" sl8 Sunday #6
+ riversedge Sunday #8
FU, drumphf!!!! 🌻🇺🇦🌻 electric_blue68 Sunday #2
Our country is a traitor to FREEDOM wolfie001 Sunday #4
We sure have a lot of Russian love traitors in this country. republianmushroom Sunday #7
Nothing New FredGarvin Sunday #9

MrWowWow

(864 posts)
1. Time for Ukraine to
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:56 AM
Sunday

Last edited Sun Aug 24, 2025, 07:32 AM - Edit history (1)

Devise its own or second source from a NATO country...other than the U.S.

hueymahl

(2,832 posts)
3. Agree 100%
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 06:13 AM
Sunday

But probably for a different reason. I don't think we should be arming countries generally. It is a sick, twisted cycle that props up the MIC, corrupts peaceful foreign policy and drags us into needless wars.

wolfie001

(5,941 posts)
5. Too late for that
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:35 AM
Sunday

That's great thinking when you have a competent POTUS. We don't. We have a compromised POTUS. And Putin is relying on the West to be reasonable while he bombs maternity wards.

sl8

(16,728 posts)
6. "Vilkha MLRS - Ukraine's locally produced "HIMARS" based on the Soviet Smerch"
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:36 AM
Sunday

They've developed their own version of HIMARS. Also, they just announced that they're now producing the Flamingo cruise missile, which has a greater range and payload than the US Tomahawk.


https://www.defensemagazine.com/article/vilkha-mlrs-ukraines-locally-produced-himars-based-on-the-soviet-smerch

Vilkha MLRS – Ukraine’s locally produced “HIMARS” based on the Soviet Smerch
24. 06. 2025

wolfie001

(5,941 posts)
4. Our country is a traitor to FREEDOM
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 09:33 AM
Sunday

All because of The Heritage Foundation and 6 christo-fascist f$cks on the SC. My oh my, have things gone downhill.

republianmushroom

(21,121 posts)
7. We sure have a lot of Russian love traitors in this country.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 11:46 AM
Sunday

Let them leave this country and go live in Russia.

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