According to Politico’s information, permission to use the weapons has so far only been given for counterattacks or to repel Russian attacks in the vicinity of the Kharkiv area.
30.5. 23:44•Updated 30.5. 23:53
The US administration may reconsider its policy, according to which it does not allow the weapons it supplies to Ukraine to be used on Russian soil, writes The Washington Post.
In addition Politico magazine reported, citing his sources, that the US president Joe Biden has quietly authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia’s borders
The alignment has been one of President Biden’s longest-lasting precautionary measures in the war between Ukraine and Russia.
Still on Tuesday, the White House’s National Security Council John Kirby assured the press that there is no visible change in the way the United States operates.
The recent Russian attacks on Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine have made decision-makers in the US administration rethink their position, writes the Washington Post.
According to Politico’s information, Biden’s secret permission for the use of US weapons would have been given for the time being only for counterstrikes or to repel Russian attacks in the vicinity of the Kharkiv region.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to Moldova on Wednesday that the White House is reconsidering the possibility of allowing Ukraine to use US long-range ATACMS missiles and other US-supplied weapons inside Russia’s borders.
The Washington Post says that thus Blinken was the first high-ranking official of the Biden administration to publicly express a change of attitude in the US policy on using its weapons against Russia.
Sources: Reuters, AP