Ukraine|The Secretary General of NATO would like to give Ukraine the freedom to attack targets in Russia with Western weapons as well. The message from the US is that policy has not changed. At the same time, the door remains slightly open.
of the United States the line on how to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with US-supplied weapons has not changed.
This was the US ambassador to NATO by Julianne Smith message on Wednesday as he spoke to reporters ahead of an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers starting in Prague on Thursday.
“There has been no change in US policy,” Smith said.
“Nevertheless, Foreign Minister [Antony] I blink and others have been very clear that this is ultimately Ukraine’s war. It’s up to them to decide how to conduct the war, and we’ll ultimately leave it up to them,” Smith said, leaving some leeway in the message.
A similar message was conveyed by Blinken himself when he visited Moldova.
He implied that the United States has not encouraged or enabled such attacks. However, Ukrainians should make their own decisions about how best to defend themselves. The United States has “adapted and adjusted” [linjaansa] as the war changed, he said of the New York Times by.
When asked by a reporter if this meant that the United States could support Ukraine’s attacks inside Russia, Blinken said, according to the newspaper, that “adjust and adjust means exactly that.”
Conversation in Ukraine of attacks on the Russian side has accelerated in recent days after the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg took a stand on the matter of The Economist in the interview.
Stoltenberg considered that the countries should consider removing restrictions on how Ukraine can strike targets on the Russian side.
Some NATO countries, such as the United States, have placed related restrictions on their arms deliveries. The background has been the fear that such attacks would escalate the war.
President of France Emmanuel Macron and the Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz commented on the question on Tuesday during Macron’s visit to Germany. According to them, Ukraine should be allowed to attack those military targets in Russia from which Ukraine is attacked, Reuters reported.
President Alexander Stubb has commented on the question of attacks on the Russian side as well during his visit to Ukraine earlier this spring and recently during a state visit to Estonia.
In Estonia he said According to Yle, he does not see a problem in using weapons to attack on the Russian side, as long as the war is fought according to and within the framework of international law.
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