Russia's Rostov region may be the next target for Ukraine's strikes with Western missiles - WSJ
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Ukraine may direct its next strike with Western missiles at the Rostov region. There are many facilities there that could be a target for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Russian airfields, ammunition depots, and training grounds are no longer safe after the allies gave Ukraine permission to hit targets in Russia. Hundreds of targets are now within range of missiles that are more powerful than the long-range drones used by Ukraine.
The Institute for the Study of War found about 200 military targets within range of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles. ISW analyst George Barros notes that this is only a part of the targets. According to him, Ukraine can use intelligence data to attack headquarters and other facilities that change location.
The elimination of a brigade or division headquarters could create disruption for several days for hundreds of Russian soldiers, Barros said.
The article says that one of the largest concentrations of targets is in the Rostov region. There are at least four airports there that are within range of Western missiles, although some of them are civilian.
Rostov is the landing point for many troops, who are transported by large military aircraft, equipped, loaded onto buses, and taken to the occupied east of Ukraine. A strike on the region could be devastating and scatter a key staging area for Russian troops, the WSJ writes.
It is still not known whether the United States has imposed restrictions on the types of targets or regions that Ukraine can choose for attacks.
Strikes on Russia
The United States has recently authorized Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with long-range ATACMS missiles. This was a response to the involvement of DPRK troops in the war.
Ukraine has already launched the first strikes with American ATACMS missiles on the territory of Russia. The strike was on a military facility near the town of Karachev in the Bryansk region.
Bloomberg wrote that Ukraine also attacked a facility in Russia for the first time with Storm Shadow missiles. It is assumed that this was a sanatorium of the Russian Presidential Administration in Maryino, Kursk region.
The media reported that the attack killed 500 North Korean soldiers and 18 Russian soldiers, including officers.
