The Biden administration announced late Tuesday it would send advanced longer-range rocket systems to Ukraine for the first time as part of $700mn in additional assistance to help the country fend off Moscow’s continued assault in the eastern Donbas region.
The supply of the weapons, which a senior administration official said would allow Ukraine to “more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield from a greater distance inside Ukraine”, will come as the US is trying to thread a careful needle in bolstering Kyiv’s defences without further inflaming tensions between Moscow and the west.
So what exactly are the rocket systems, and how are they likely to influence Ukraine’s strategy in the war?
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