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foreign media: us and uk intend to allow ukraine to use long-range weapons against russia

2024-09-12

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the picture shows the "storm shadow" cruise missile provided by the uk to ukraine

according to a report by russia's lenta website on september 11, during his visit to kiev, us secretary of state blinken will allow ukraine to use the us army tactical missile system (atacms) to launch strikes against russia. michael mccaul, chairman of the us house of representatives foreign affairs committee, mentioned this in an interview with a reporter from the axios news website.

mccaul said: "i spoke to blinken two days ago, and he will go to kiev with the british foreign secretary on the 11th to actually tell them that the united states will allow them (to use atacms to strike russia),"

according to british media reports, ukraine has submitted to the united states a list of targets that the ukrainian army intends to strike with longer-range missiles made in the west. sources said that kiev firmly believes that it is necessary to create a "threat to moscow and st. petersburg" in order to achieve peace on its own terms. the pentagon claims that ukraine has independence in the issue of strikes against russia. the us department of defense said that "ukraine independently determines its targets and military intentions."

meanwhile, cnn reported that washington wants the ukrainian army to use atacms missiles to attack crimea instead of kursk oblast because washington has a limited number of missiles to supply kiev.

on september 7, ukrainian president zelensky expressed regret that kiev could not attack the kremlin.

according to a report on the british daily telegraph website on september 10, us president biden is preparing to lift the ban on ukraine launching british storm shadow cruise missiles at russia.

reports say biden is considering a policy change amid reports that iran is providing russia with ballistic missiles that could be used against ukraine within weeks.

u.s. secretary of state blinken will travel to ukraine on the 11th with british foreign secretary lamy to discuss the lifting of the ban with ukrainian leader zelensky.

blinken said biden and british prime minister starmer will then discuss changing the policy at a white house summit on the 13th, adding that the president "does not rule out the possibility (of lifting the ban)."