US officials say President Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long range missiles supplied by Washington to strike deep inside Russia. Washington had previously refused to allow such strikes with US-made ATACMS missiles because it feared they would escalate the war.

Ukraine has fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia’s Bryansk region, Russian state media reported Tuesday, citing the country’s Defense Ministry, after the Biden administration gave Kyiv the green light to use the longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia.

Ukraine has been pleading with the US for months to let it use American-made weapons to hit military targets inside Russia beyond the border zone. Now, as he nears the end of his presidency, Joe Biden has relented and decided to lift some restrictions,