Everything to Know About How Long-Range Missiles Might Impact the Ukraine-Russia War

In recent weeks, Kyiv’s allies, particularly the United States and Britain, have appeared increasingly open to the notion of letting Ukraine use long-range missile systems supplied by the West to strike targets deep inside Russia. Geopolitical implications aside, some experts believe that, given current realities on the battlefield, such a scenario is unlikely to turn the tide of the conflict in Ukraine’s favor. “Russia is making advances, slow but relatively steady advances, in the east,” Robert Peters, a defense policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, told The Epoch Times. According to Peters, who specializes in nuclear deterrence and missile defense, hard-pressed Ukrainian forces must first “overcome Russian advances, and then—ideally—stop them, before they begin pushing them back.”...