Joe Biden is authorizing Ukraine to use American-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia near the Kharkov (Kharkiv) region. His decision represents a significant escalation of the West’s proxy war with Russia as it gains the upper hand over Ukraine.
The Biden regime agreed to this change amid increasing pressure from NATO allies and deteriorating conditions on the Ukrainian battlefield. The British representative at a NATO meeting in Bulgaria recently complained, “We have to admit that Ukraine is losing this war,” saying the West could not “continue to tell Ukraine not to fire its [Western] missiles at Russia.”
“The President recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S. weapons for counter-fire purposes in Kharkiv so Ukraine can hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them,” confirmed an anonymous U.S. official. For now, instructions that U.S. weapons should not be used for long-range strikes inside Russia remain unchanged — excepting Crimea and more recently annexed Ukrainian territories, which the West does not recognize as part of Russia.
In recent months, Ukrainian forces have been getting ground down in the Donbass (Donbas) regions of Donetsk and Luhansk by Russia’s superior artillery and manpower. They have also been stretched thin by a new Russian offensive in the Kharkov region, which has seized swathes of territory along the border.
Britain has also authorized the use of its long-range Storm Shadow missiles against Russia, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Germany authorized the use of German-supplied weapons for the same purposes.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has previously warned of “major consequences” should NATO enable long-range strikes inside Russia.
