President Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range United States missiles against mainland Russian territory for the first time.

After hesitatingly providing ATACMS to Ukraine for use in its war with Russia, the Biden administration prevented the Ukrainian Armed Forces from using them to strike targets in the Russian mainland. That changed over the weekend when restrictions against their use were removed in response to North Korea allegedly sending troops to fight alongside Russia, officials told the New York Times.

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