The warning came after senior Ukrainian government officials pressured the US Secretary of State. Anthony Blinken British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a joint visit to Kiev to allow Ukraine to launch long-range US ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow missiles at targets deep inside Russia.
And I hesitated Washington It has previously refrained from supplying Ukraine with long-range weapons for fear that this would escalate the two-and-a-half-year-old conflict, but there are signs that its position may be changing.
The US President said Joe BidenOn Tuesday, he said his administration was “working on this issue now” when asked about the possibility of lifting restrictions on Kyiv’s use of missiles such as Atacms.
The Kremlin spokesman said Dmitry Peskov For journalists Moscow It is doubtful that America has already made a decision allowing Kiev to launch such a Rockets On Russia. He added that there would be a response if that happened.
Peskov stressed that the response “will be appropriate.”
He added: “Intervention US European countries in the conflict in Ukraine Directly, and every new step enhances the degree of this intervention.”
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, and a close ally of the president, said: Vladimir PutinMoscow will be forced to use “more powerful and destructive weapons” against Ukraine if Kiev starts firing long-range Western missiles at Russia, he said.
Volodin said on Telegram“Washington and other European countries have become parties to the War in Ukraine“
The range of the American ATACMS missile systems is about 305 kilometers, and the range of the British Storm Shadow missiles is about 249 kilometers.
Ukraine is already firing these two missiles at Russian targets on territory internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but wants to use them to strike rules Within Russia itself.
