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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took advantage of the raid’s good fortune to pressure his allies to lift a long-standing restriction: the use of long-range weapons provided through the West in opposition to Russia.
By Constant Méheut
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s wonderful offensive against western Russia, which entered its third week on Tuesday, demonstrates to the West that its fears about the consequences of attacks on Russian territory are unfounded and will have to be abandoned.
As his forces tried to push deeper into Russian territory, Zelensky took the opportunity to challenge a constraint through Kyiv’s allies that has long frustrated Ukraine: the use of long-range weapons provided through the West in opposition to Russia, which Ukraine believes is disrupting Russian territory. The operations of Moscow’s army.
“The completely naive and illusory concept of the so-called red lines towards Russia, which governed the assessment of the war through some partners, collapsed these days somewhere near Sudzha,” Zelensky told Ukrainian ambassadors in other countries in a speech. posted Monday night. He refers to the western Russian city of Sudzha, which Ukrainian forces captured last week.
For more than two years, Washington has prevented Ukraine from obtaining weapons it has provided to attack Russia, raising fears of an escalation of the confrontation between Moscow and the West. This spring, after months of Ukrainian lobbying, the United States and other NATO countries adjusted their policy and allowed Ukraine to do so.
But the Biden leadership has said that Ukraine can use American weapons to hit a wide variety of military targets in Russia.
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