A press report wrote by Andre Damon, writer and editor of wsws.org, stated that Washington has already provided Ukraine with the devices to strike dozens or hundreds of miles of Russian territory.

The shipment of the Harpoon anti-ship missile, transferred by the United States through Denmark, as well as the M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer directly from the United States, stand out in this regard.

The M109, weighing in at nearly 30 tons, is capable of firing artillery rounds, each weighing 100 pounds, at distances of over 25 miles. The Harpoon, according to manufacturer Boeing, is “the world’s most successful anti-ship missile…capable of executing both land strike and anti-ship missions,” the report cited.

The missile’s lethality, according to the manufacturer, is ensured by a 500-pound blast warhead. It is capable of destroying a wide variety of land-based targets, included coastal defense sites, surface-to-air missile sites, exposed aircraft, port/industrial facilities and ships in port.

Damon states that the provision of these weapons systems means that Ukrainian forces will be using the same anti-ship missiles and mobile artillery systems as the US Navy and Army.

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