The administration of U.S. president Joe Biden on Tuesday unexpectedly announced $300 million in additional military aid to Ukraine.
Critically, the surprise consignment of ammunition reportedly includes a second batch of M39 Army Tactical Missile System ballistic missiles, or ATACMS. Politico’s Lara Seligman, Alexander Ward and Paul McLeary first reported the provision.
The last time Ukraine got M39s, last fall, it promptly fired all 20 or so of the munitions from its wheeled High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems or tracked M270 launchers—and wreaked havoc with Russian air-defenses and helicopters.