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U. S. Secretary of State The U. S. Department of Homeland Security warned that Ukraine’s use of U. S. -supplied weapons. it could expand movements beyond the existing boundaries in the Kharkiv region.
By Eduardo Wong
Report from Prague on a vacation with the U. S. Secretary of State
On Friday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken left open the option for President Biden to allow Ukraine to use U. S. -made weapons to reach a wider diversity of targets in Russia, going beyond the strikes he has approved on the liberation sites the Russians are for the current attack on the Kharkiv region.
“Going forward, we will continue to do what we’ve done, which is: if necessary, adapt and adjust,” Blinken said at a news conference in Prague at the end of a two-day meeting of senior diplomats from member countries. of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Blinken responding to a reporter’s question about whether the U. S. could allow Ukraine to use U. S. -made weapons to strike Russia deeper. The phrase “adapt and adjust” is what Blinken used at a press conference Wednesday in Chisinau, Moldova. , to recommend that Biden is about to make a major policy change and grant Ukraine permission to use the weapons to strike in Moldova Russia, as Ukrainian and European leaders have been calling for weeks.
U. S. officials said later on Thursday that Biden had made this resolution in recent days and briefed the Ukrainians, but that the authorization to strike in Russia was limited to the locations where the Russians were for the attack on Kharkiv. Officials said the ban on Ukrainian weapons for “long-range” attacks on Russia had not changed.
But Blinken’s remarks on Friday recommend that the ban could simply be replaced depending on the battlefield situation and the direction of the war. However, he said the U. S. was “proceeding intentionally and effectively. “Education to use the new weapons systems and the ability to use them, he explained.
U. S. officials say the policy reinstatement means Ukrainian attacks with U. S. weapons on Russia may be preemptive but can take up positions in Russian spaces near Kharkiv that the Pentagon has designated and that U. S. military officials have communicated to their Ukrainian counterparts.
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