New interactive map tool🌎 We created a tool to illustrate the extent to which US restrictions on Ukraine’s use of ATACMS constrain Ukraine’s ability to strike important military infrastructure in Russia. Link to tool:

We made this tool to help visualize the extent to which US policy is protecting a vast number of objects in Russia's rear and how many legacy installations and known military landuse protected by US policy is supporting Russia's war effort.

225 unique military and paramilitary objects are available here for exploration. Clicking on pins on the map allows the user to lean more details about that object.

Anonymous senior US officials have suggested that the redeployment of Russian combat aircraft from airfields in Russia within ATACMS range and the low number of ATACMS that the US has provided to Ukraine somehow reduce the validity or importance of the Ukrainian request.

The redeployment of Russian aircraft from 16 Russian air bases in range of ATACMS does not reduce the importance of allowing Ukraine to use ATACMS against hundreds of other Russian military objects, however, nor does the reportedly small number of ATACMS the US has provided.

The argument that the limited redeployment of Russian aircraft from 16 airfields makes the discussion of lifting US restrictions on the use of ATACMS somehow moot ignores the hundreds of these facilities available to explore in this tool.

Any assessment that rejects allowing Ukraine to strike legitimate military objects in Russia on the exclusive basis of air asset redeployments is incomplete because it fails to account for the hundreds of other objects supporting Russia’s war and would thus be incorrect.

ISW is not asserting that the redeployment of Russian air assets is the only reason for the continuation of the US ban on the use of ATACMS against legitimate military targets in Russia as ISW is not privy to US decision-making.

This report is intended to respond to what appears to be an attempt to dismiss the value and importance of reevaluating these restrictions based on a partial presentation of the situation.

I'd would like to acknowledge @Archer83Able and @breakingcraft_ for collating this comprehensive data set on Russian military and paramilitary objects and making it publicly available. Their work is phenomenal and you should give them a follow if you aren't already.

Ukraine needs to manufacture their own ballistic missiles, and F*ck everyone else who holds them back. F*ck Russia