President Joe Biden will authorize Ukraine to use U. S. weapons to strike in Russia and protect the domain around the war-torn city of Kharkiv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken showed Friday morning, a major departure from the administration’s corporate objection to measures in Russia as Ukrainian. Troops struggle to repel Russian advances.
The Biden administration’s approval applies exclusively to the domain around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city and a key Ukrainian stronghold near the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine, Blinken said at a news conference in Prague, confirming several reports mentioning unnamed U. S. officials.
Blinken said Ukraine has asked to use those weapons “on the Russian border,” where Russian troops are stationed to attack Ukraine.
President Joe Biden approved the request as part of a major policy shift for his administration, albeit in one area, indicating that the Biden administration’s stance opposed to the use of U. S. weapons in Russia remains valid.
According to the order, Ukrainian troops will use weapons sent through the United States “for counterattack purposes” in the region to “counter Russian forces attacking them or preparing to attack them,” a U. S. official told Politico on Thursday. while Ukraine is still not allowed to use long-range weapons to attack other parts of Russia, officials said.
The reports come just over a month after Biden signed a primary foreign aid package that included $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, as well as $26 billion for military aid to Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza, after a tumultuous circular of negotiations in Congress, overcoming stiff opposition from far-right Republicans. Biden’s leadership said earlier this month it would provide another $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine, as Russia continues to move forward.
The Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, 8 years after the annexation of Crimea, a seizure denounced by the United Nations as illegal. While Ukraine controlled itself first to defend against Russian advances along the Black Sea and into eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials have adopted a more radical technique in the war in recent months, urging Western countries to increase their military aid. In recent weeks, Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border has one of several central issues for the Russian invasion, with Russian forces advancing on the city for weeks and Ukrainian officials redeploying troops to villages around the city. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted earlier this month that the country’s efforts in the region were “still ongoing. “
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