In the final months of the Joe Biden Presidency, the war in Ukraine hit a new milestone.
In an attack on Tuesday, Ukraine for the first time used American long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, according to The New York Times.
And it came on the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin made a move on the use of nuclear weapons.
The Times reported that Russian military officials had announced that six long-range ballistic missiles — “known as Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS” — had been fired at the Bryansk region in southwestern Russia.
Ukraine had been agitating for Biden’s permission to use the missiles for months, according to the Times. That permission became public on Sunday.
A Ukraine official said the missile targets were warehouses for “artillery ammunition, including North Korean ammunition for their systems,” according to the Times.
The Russians claimed that the attack was a failure, with five of the six missiles being shot down and the sixth being damaged before it struck, with falling fragments causing fires but no casualties, according to the Times.
Regardless of the actual impact of the attack — and unconfirmed statements from the Russian military can’t be taken