NEW YORK, November 7./TASS/. US President Joe Biden is concerned that long-range ATACMS missile systems won’t be enough to tilt the balance of power on the battlefield in Kiev’s favor, The New York Times wrote on Monday.
"Mr. Biden’s aides say they have now given Mr. Zelensky every weapons system he has requested, most recently ATACMS, the long-range missile systems," the paper said. Meanwhile, "Now the fear about the ATACMS is that they will not make that big a difference because the Russians are learning how to park their aircraft beyond the weapons’ reach," it went on to say.
President Biden "had long resisted providing because he feared they might cross a 'red line' that could lead Mr. Putin to reach for nuclear weapons," it specified.
"So now, Mr. Biden is trying to channel fatigue and frustration with the war in Ukraine, born of the growing sense that billions of dollars in American arms, aid and intelligence collection has simply failed to overcome the assembled weight of the dug-in Russian army," it said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier said that the US sending ATACMS missiles to Ukraine was doing harm and posed an additional threat, but Russia would be able to repel such attacks. Overall, he called the ATACMS deliveries yet another mistake on the part of the US.