“Ukraine can use weapons supplied by Germany to defend itself in the Kharkiv border region, a spokesperson for the German government said Friday.”
“U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday confirmed that the U.S. President Joe Biden approved Ukraine’s usage of weapons supplied by the U.S. within Russia. This only applies to Russian targets that are attacking Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
“Over the past few weeks, Ukraine came to us and asked for the authorization to use weapons that we’re providing to defend against this aggression, including against Russian forces that are massing on the Russian side of the border and then attacking into Ukraine,” Blinken said at a news conference following an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague.
“And that went right to the President, and as you’ve heard, he’s approved use of our weapons for that purpose. Going forward, we’ll continue to do what we’ve been doing, which is as necessary adapt and adjust,” he said.
News of Biden approving the use of U.S. weapons in this way first emerged on Thursday. Biden had previously been against the use of U.S. supplied weapons by Ukraine to carry out strikes on Russian territory.”