Biden authorizes Ukraine to make use of long-range missiles in Kursk | EUROtoday

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Outgoing US President Joe Biden has approved Ukraine to make use of long-range missiles to strike Russian and North Korean forces solely in Russia’s Kursk area. Axios writes it. The supply mentioned that Biden’s determination was communicated to Ukraine about three days in the past and that the motivation behind this determination is to dissuade North Korea from sending extra troops to Russia for the warfare in opposition to Ukraine .

US officers with this new attestation of assist for President Volodymyr Zelensky hope that if North Korean troops in Kursk are hit, Pyongyang would possibly rethink its determination to ship troops to Russia and the Russian counterattack on Kursk would fail. The authorization wouldn’t change something in Moscow’s plans for the conduct of the warfare in Ukraine, in line with what a Russian MP advised the Ria Novosti company. Washington’s determination, mentioned Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the Defense Committee of the Duma, «is not going to change the course of the operation in something, completely nothing. We will proceed to satisfy our mission as we at all times have. This new reality will definitely be taken under consideration, however the goals set” by President Vladimir Putin “will nonetheless be achieved”, he added.