BREAKING: Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russia for first time

we begin with some news coming in into our Newsroom at this hour where a Us official says the United States in recent weeks secretly shipped long range missiles to Ukraine for using its battle to fight Russian forces and Ukraine last week used them for the first time the US officials speaking on condition of anonymity say the ARA missiles were contained in a 300 million US military aid package for Ukraine that US President Joe Biden approved on March 12 12 the Pentagon initially opposed the long range missile deployment fearing Ukraine will use them to attract targets deep inside Russia let's talk to our correspondent Susan terani who's uh joining us from New York Susan hi the Russians are likely to respond as the West Was long hesitant to provide such long range Weaponry to the ukrainians how do you see this report what are the ramifications of that report yeah Eric good to be with you definitely the Russians are going to be responding in a negative way considering the fact that this is a major shift uh in Western's support for ke notably the United States which was initially hesitant to provide these missiles one because it was concerned that it would deplete America's own stock pile of weapons and secondly they were concerned that Ukraine would attack deep into to Russian territory which was something that the United States was saying was off limits so it is a shift and we're expecting Russia to definitely have a negative response to something like this and also we'll have to see whether or not it UPS its attack against ukrainians as well we do know that the Russians get a lot of missiles similar to this from North Korea there is Intelligence on that and time and time again the United Nations security Council has tried to prevent this Exchange from happening but it hadn't and I think that's where the change of heart came from the Biden Administration the fact that this is being revealed now H is also curious the timing right after uh the United States once again approved finance and budget for the war against Russia by Ukraine so we'll be watching that very closely as well all right suzan Teran is our correspondent in the US coming to you live from New York thank you Susan for all the latest news download the weon app And subscribe to our YouTube channel

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Published: Wed Apr 24 2024