The President of the United States, Joe Biden, emphasized this Thursday (6) that Ukraine is allowed to use American weapons only against Russian territory that is close to its border, and confessed that he was not particularly worried about the dictator’s latest threat. Russian, Vladimir Putin.
“We are not authorizing attacks 200 miles inside Russia and we are not authorizing attacks against Moscow, against the Kremlin,” said the government official in an interview with ABC News in France, where he was celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy.
The Biden administration gave Ukraine permission in late May to attack inside Russia using US-supplied weapons such as rockets and rocket launchers, but only near the border with Ukraine’s Kharkiv area.
Even so, it was clear that Ukraine could not use these weapons to attack civilian infrastructure or launch long-range missiles, such as the Army’s Tactical Missile System, to strike military targets in central Russia.
However, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken later told reporters that US policy towards Ukraine would evolve as necessary.
This Wednesday (5), Putin threatened Western countries with an “asymmetric” response if they provide Ukraine with high-precision weapons to launch attacks against targets on Russian territory.
A ABC News asked Biden if he is concerned about these latest statements.
“I’ve known him for over 40 years. I’ve been worried for 40 years. He’s not a decent man. He’s a dictator and he’s fighting to make sure he keeps his country together while he continues this attack. We’re not talking about giving them weapons to attack Moscow, the Kremlin. Only on the other side of the border”, he explained in an excerpt from the interview, which will be broadcast in full this Thursday. (With EFE Agency)
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