KYIV, Nov 18 — Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it had attacked military targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a “significant development.”

Ukraine has not previously stated openly that it uses the advanced U.S.-provided ballistic missile systems on targets inside Russia, although the restriction on doing so was lifted by the outgoing Biden administration a year ago.

“The use of long-range strike capabilities , including systems such as ATACMS, will continue,” the military general staff said in a statement on Tuesday.

Kyiv received the systems in 2023 but was initially restricted to using them only on its own territories, nearly a fifth of which are occupied by Russia .

Joe Biden, who was U.S president at the time, lifted those restrictions in Nov

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