Kiev has long been asking the United States for the supply of ATACMS, a long-range surface-to-surface missile launched by the Lockheed Martin High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. Washington has been reluctant to deploy the missiles because it feared it would escalate the conflict started by Moscow.

Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the US Army in Europe, believes the Biden administration will provide ATACM to Ukraine "eventually" The US State Department told Newsweek that Washington "will continue to use a wide range of available tools to help Ukrainian forces"