According to several American media, Washington has given the green light to kyiv for the use of its long-range missiles with the aim of striking targets inside Russia. This information could not go unnoticed in Moscow, but the decision of the Joe Biden administration taken after months and months of procrastination and a few weeks before the inauguration of the new American president, Donald Trump, did not go unnoticed either. no longer caused an uproar.
On Monday, November 18, most official commentators limited themselves to recalling Vladimir Putin's position on the subject. During his weekly briefing, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov referred journalists to the Russian president's explanations, formulated, according to him, “extremely clear manner” last fall. Quoted by the popular daily Moscow Komsomolets, Peskov felt that he was “obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take measures to continue to add fuel to the fire and provoke a further rise in tensions” around the conflict in Ukraine.
“If such a decision was formulated and communicated to the kyiv regime, this is a qualitatively new situation in terms of
