After much procrastination, American President Joe Biden announced on Sunday, November 17, that Washington was authorizing kyiv on a case-by-case basis to use long-range American missiles to strike Russia in depth.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been asking for this since the spring. The former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, deplored Western reservations on the use of the weapons provided in May: “This ties the Ukrainians’ hands behind their backs and makes it very difficult for them to defend themselves. »
On the possibility of using Western weapons to strike Russian territory in depth as well as on the supply of artillery in 2022, tanks or planes in 2023, the Western allies have moved forward in small steps and often late on Ukrainian needs. Always with the fear of crossing the “red lines” set by Moscow and of inflaming a conflict in which they could be considered co-belligerents.
Each timeline represents the moment when Ukraine requests access to a weapon or to allow it to dispose of it as it wishes, before its Western allies grant this request and other countries follow.
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