Putin insists Ukraine’s new US-supplied weapon will not change war’s outcome

A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in southern Ukraine, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new weapon supplied to Ukraine by the US (Alex Babenko/AP)

A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new US-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of the war.

Mr Putin told reporters that Russia “will be able to repel” further attacks by the US-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.