Ukrainian troops are likely to start firing US-donated weapons at targets in Russia's Belgorod Region this week, after Washington relaxed restrictions on where they can be used, reports in the Western press have claimed.
US President Joe Biden previously maintained that to avoid “World War III,” American arms sent to Ukraine could not target what the US considers Russian territory.
The policy change allows Kiev to attack exclusively military targets that pose a direct threat to Kharkov Region, which borders Russia’s Belgorod Region and has seen intense fighting this month. Russian troops made significant territorial gains in the area.
”This is a new reality,” an unnnamed senior US official told The New York Times, “and perhaps a new era” in the Ukraine conflict. It appears Biden will be the first American president to authorize attacks against a nuclear-armed nation on its soil, the newspaper noted on Thursday.
The NYT report provides a detailed account on how Biden’s opinion was moved by foreign pressure and members of his administration. Sources said that the US leader first indicated an inclination to make the change on May 15, when national security adviser Jake Sullivan delivered formal recommendations on the matter.
The final decision was taken late last week, after Biden met national security ‘principals’ to discuss the risks of the move.
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And you can be sure that China will have Russia’s back because they know that if Russia falls, they will be next. To say that Western leadership is pathetic is an understatement.
@ZestyHouseRepublican2yrs2Y
'pathetic' is determined by what metric you are judging them.
as being an imperial endless war machine, they are almost perfection.
@B1cameralTrinityVeteran2yrs2Y
And probably Iran because they are next on the original list.
@FilibusterRhinoDemocrat2yrs2Y
It should be clear now to anyone that Trump, MAGA pols, and MAGA want to aid and abet Putin's imperial aggression.
Trump's former Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, was certainly right in stating that Putin has some kind of hold on Trump.
And it appears obvious also that Trump's hero has a powerful influence over MAGA pols and that he is revered by MAGA.
@TermiteRickForward2yrs2Y
It’s not Maga that’s driving Ukraine's defeat. It’s reality. They are up against a much bigger opponent, right next to them. It’s the law of physics.
Ukrainians elected Z to improve relations with Russia. The public knew all along this was an unwinnable war. They didn’t elect Z to have a suicidal war. It was American and British involvement that led to the war in the first place and then to the continuing destruction of that country.
Z should be holding an election, one he will surely loose.
Every day for the past 50 years that the world wasn’t destroyed in a nuclear Holocaust was a gift, a testament to God’s extraordinary patience and mercy.
@PlatypusPiperRepublican2yrs2Y
Well Russia should go back to Russia and stop invading other countries, then these things would not happen. Play sill games win silly prizes. Fk Russia.
If nuclear apocalypse comes, at least in the moments before annihilation we can all take comfort in the fact that Donald Trump was "held accountable" for boinking Stormy Daniels in 2005
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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