CIt's a green light that could mark a turning point. After the French and the British, who had authorized Ukraine to strike Russia using their SCALP/Storm Shadow missiles, Joe Biden gave the green light to Volodymyr Zelensky to use long-range American missiles against the territory Russian, an American official told Agence France-Presse. A decision that marks a major strategic change a few weeks from the arrival of Donald Trump in power, and this while Vladimir Putin had warned that such a decision would mean that “the NATO countries are at war with Russia”.
The President Joe Biden thus accedes to a long-standing request from kyiv shortly before his departure from the White House. For months, Volodymyr Zelensky has been demanding authorization to use these long-range missiles to reach targets further inside Russian territory, or even airfields from which bombers of the Kremlin army take off.
A decision that could push other countries to do the same
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The decision taken by Joe Biden could push other countries allied to Ukraine to do the same like the United Kingdom. However, some still remain fiercely opposed to such a process, notably Germany. Second largest provider of military aid to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022Olaf Scholz tirelessly refuses to supply the long-range Taurus missiles requested by kyiv.
ALSO READ In Russia, the alliance of the missal and the missileThe American announcement comes on the same day as one of the largest Russian attacks in recent months against Ukraine, strikes leaving ten people dead and around twenty injured across the country, according to the authorities. While several thousand North Korean troops were seen in the Russian border region of Kursk in support of the Russian army, it is probably from this area of the front that the missiles ATACMS analyzes the New York Times.
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