“ADJUST”
The Russian counter-attack comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Washington would quickly review Kyiv’s long-standing request to give it more leeway to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
“As we go forward, we will do exactly what we have already done, which is, we will adjust, we’ll adapt as necessary, including with regard to the means that are at Ukraine’s disposal to effectively defend against the Russian aggression,” Blinken said Thursday in a press conference in Warsaw.
Washington currently only allows Ukraine to hit Russian targets in the occupied parts of Ukraine and some in Russian border regions directly related to Moscow’s combat operations.
Kyiv wants more flexibility to hit Russian airfields and other military targets further from the front lines that it says are crucial to Moscow’s invasion.
“The delay in this process leads to Russia moving these military targets deeper into Russia,” Zelenskyy said Thursday.
Source: CNA
