Joe Biden has approved Kyiv’s use of American-made weapons to strike within Russia as long as the targets relate to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, a US official said on Thursday.
The decision marks an important shift from Washington’s previous position that Ukraine should not use US weapons to strike targets in Russia — and follows growing pressure on Biden from Kyiv and its allies.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office did not immediately confirm or comment on the US decision. He and Ukrainian government officials had for weeks urged Washington to lift the restrictions, arguing that it was “unfair” that they were prohibited from striking military targets while Moscow’s forces pounded civilian targets in Ukraine.
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