The US President clarified that the green light given to the Ukrainian army to use American weapons on Russian territory is limited to targets close to the border
Joe Biden has clarified the US position on military aid to Ukraine, pointing out that several countries, including the United States, have recently authorised the Ukrainian army to use Western weapons to strike targets in Russia.
‘They are allowed for attacks close to the border (…) on specific targets,’ Joe Biden told ABC News. ‘We do not authorise strikes more than 300 kilometres inside Russia, nor strikes on Moscow or the Kremlin’, he said from Normandy, where he is taking part in the commemorations of the D-Day landings.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ‘the supply of high-precision weapons to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory constitutes direct participation in this war.’
In response, Joe Biden insisted that it was not a question of giving the Ukrainians weapons to strike at Moscow or the Kremlin, but to target the areas just over the border from which significant Russian conventional weapons fire aimed at Ukraine originates.
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