Outgoing US President Joe Biden has reportedly authorized Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to attack mainland Russia, two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. There is a possibility that the conflict may intensify. Peaceful settlement.
According to Democratic Party news washington post and new york times Lame-duck President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions barring Ukraine from using ATACMS missiles to attack targets inside Russia, both newspapers cited unnamed U.S. officials.
President Biden previously authorized Kyiv to use ATACMS to attack Russian targets inside Ukrainian territory, including Russian-occupied territories such as Crimea that were illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014 under the Obama administration. Ta. The Biden administration had also approved its use. US short-range missiles for limited cross-border strikes inside Russia.
But President Biden has expressed concerns that the world's largest nuclear power could use more powerful weapons inside Ukraine and that Russia is stepping up support for America's adversaries, including Islamists. As a result, the Russian Federation was reluctant to allow Ukrainians to use ATACMS inside Russia for fear of escalating the conflict. to the Iranian regime or to Yemen's Houthi terrorists seeking to disrupt global shipping.
The Biden administration's apparent shift in policy could be seen as an attempt to undermine peace efforts by President-elect Donald Trump, who has already begun informal diplomatic efforts to fulfill his promise to negotiate an end to the war.
Shortly after securing victory in last week's election, Trump spoke by phone with key players in the conflict, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The current president-elect reportedly met with President Vladimir Putin and urged him to de-escalate the war before the transition in Washington. The Kremlin denies the call took place.
Mr. Trump has not publicly disclosed his negotiating strategy, but allies including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are looking to pressure the future 47th president to bring Mr. Zelensky to the negotiating table. He has indicated that he is likely to withhold funding from Ukraine. President Zelenskiy said he had no intention of agreeing to any deal involving the cession of land that Ukraine's military has so far failed to retake from Russian control.
Efforts have been underway on both sides of the Atlantic to secure funding for Zelensky to continue his fight, with expectations that President Trump will use the purse strings to pressure Kiev to accept a more pragmatic compromise.
“President Biden has committed to ensuring that we spend every dollar at our disposal between now and January 20,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a speech from Brussels on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, over the weekend, the G7 nations of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States jointly pledged “lasting support to Ukraine” and to support Kiev “for as long as necessary.”
The Weimar Triangle alliance of France, Germany and Poland will also meet with Britain and others next week to discuss a possible increase in Europe's war funding if the incoming Trump administration seeks to limit aid to Ukraine. However, it is unclear how much public support there would be for such a move, given that left-wing governments in Berlin, London and Paris are currently in financial crisis.
Reports that President Biden has authorized long-range missile strikes come after the Russian government launched a major attack on President Zelenskiy and across Ukraine on Saturday. I'm saying Russia announced that it launched a total of 120 missiles and 90 drones against infrastructure targets in Ukraine.
Both new york times and washington post Biden's decision to authorize an ATACMS attack in Russia was prompted by the possibility that North Korean forces could invade Russia and join the conflict, rather than a desire to thwart President Trump's peace efforts. hinted.
The ATACMS attack will initially be limited to Russia's Kursk region, where Ukraine launched a surprise invasion in the summer and where North Korean troops are said to be concentrating, anonymous U.S. officials said. However, reports suggest that President Biden may authorize attacks in other parts of Russia while in office.
