At a meeting in Brussels on 29 August, EU foreign ministers discussed the possible lifting of restrictions on Ukraine’s use of weapons to strike Russian territory. Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign policy, said that a solution had been found, according to Komersant ukrainskyi
citing Yevropeiska Pravda.
“In the end, the conclusion is that this is a decision of an individual state, and the member states want it to continue to be a decision of individual states. And each of them will make the decision that it considers appropriate.”
– Borrell said.
He also emphasised that some EU countries do not provide Ukraine with long-range missiles at all, and therefore have no role in making such decisions.
“So this is not a decision at the European level,” Borrell said,
– borrell said.
As reported , Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, are due to visit the US by the end of this week. They will bring a list of deep targets in Russia and ask for permission to strike them.
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Western weapons and permits to use them
As you know, the United States(and Germany after them) allow the use of weapons provided by them only for strikes on the border territories of Russia. This permission was granted by US President Joe Biden only at the end of May, and before that, strikes on Russian territory with US weapons were generally prohibited.
However, towards the end of June, unofficial statements were heard from the US side that the restrictions “do not apply to geography or a certain radius”. This means that Ukraine is allegedly able to strike at those facilities and territories from which attacks on Ukraine are directly directed, even if they are deeper than the border areas.
Experts say that border strikes will not change the situation at the front, so Zelenskyy is asking his partners for permission to use their weapons on Russian territory. Some Western countries have already given such permission.