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sometimes in the form of adapted light aircraft.
They've hit oil and gas refineries, ammunition stores, air bases, military headquarters etc. Some of the strikes have been around 1,000 miles into Russian territory. The media framed the issue of use of US-supplied weapons solely in terms of range and described ATACMs etc. as "long-range", whereas they are in fact medium-range - long range was something the Ukrainians could already manage, but the firepower they could project with each drone or missile was limited, and many of them in each volley would usually be intercepted as they didn't have stealth capabilities.
Here's Trump mouthing off in his TIME interview, which took place on November 25:
As so often, I think he feels he has to spout some sort of BS to kid on that he actually understands anything and to seem relevant, whereas what he's doing here is, as usual, revealing his ignorance of why Ukraine might want to attack facilities that are raining vast swarms of weaponry on Ukraine almost daily.
The "with the approval of, I assume, the President" is especially disturbing here - it was common knowledge that there was a long-running dispute over this issue between the White House and the Ukrainian government, and that Biden finally gave the go-ahead just before Putin's much-hyped strike on Dnipro with the Oreshnik (or more correctly, Kedr) ballistic missile. Trump's obviously been too busy to read any briefings or look at a newspaper, or maybe even Fox News, which may have covered it.
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