The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.

The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (Atacms) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion,

Ukraine has been using only domestically produced long-range weapons to strike Russian territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Source: Zelenskyy in a response to a question from journalists at a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Details: Asked about Western media reports claiming that the US has banned Ukraine from using ATACMS missiles on Russian territory,