Posted on 05/30/2024 6:20:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
US President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkiv region, US officials say.
One told BBC News his team had been directed to ensure Ukraine was able to use US weapons for "counter-fire purposes" to "hit back at Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them".
Russian forces have made gains in the Kharkiv region in recent weeks after a surprise offensive in the area, close to the border with Russia.
On Friday, Ukrainian officials said three people had been killed and 16 injured in Russian shelling of a residential building in a suburb of Kharkiv city.
The US official also told the BBC: "Our policy with respect to prohibiting the use of Army Tactical Missile System [ATACMS] or long-range strikes inside of Russia has not changed.”
When asked by CBS, the BBC's US partner, whether the new policy included attacking Russian aircraft, an official said: "We’ve never told them [Ukraine] they can’t shoot down a Russian airplane over Russian soil that’s coming to attack them.”
The White House and state department had no immediate comment.
The UK earlier signalled that it was open to an easing of restrictions on how Ukraine could use weapons supplied by the West.
SNIP
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Since when is Ukraine our “ally”? Are they part of NATO? Did we sign a treaty with them that was ratified by the Senate?
So we allow our ally Ukraine to finally hit back using Western weapons against Russian artillery shooting at Ukraine from Russian territory. Isn’t that pure common sense?
After all... Russia has no qualms or second thoughts using THEIR allies’ heavy weaponry against Ukraine... Russia is using millions of North Korean shells and missiles and tens of thousands of Iranian Kamikaze drones on Ukraine... non-stop.
Shouldn’t we be threatening Iran and North Korea for doing so? If we follow Putins logic, we should! Right?
Why should Russia be allowed to have allies helping them with foreign weapons and why shouldn’t Ukraine get equivalent help from its own allies?
After immense Republican pressure, the Biden administration has FINALLY authorized Ukraine to hit back on Russian firing positions.
The Republican Party is becoming Great Again.
Russia has no arguments to criticize this move because THEY are already doing it against Ukraine. Russia started it all by letting millions of North Korean shells hit Europe. And letting Israels number one enemy : IRAN destroy part of Europe as well.
Yeah, that froggie dude is a clown, just like marcus the Doink.
A country can become an ally even without vote in the senate.
This matters just as much:
You DON’T mess with security agreements.
Bilateral security agreements:
In early 2024, following the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of allies of Ukraine signed long-term bilateral security treaties with Ukraine for many years to come (often a period of 10 years).[9] They resulted from a declaration by the G7 countries at a NATO Summit in Washington on 12 July 2023, concluding the establishment of a framework of bilateral security agreements of long-term military, materiel and economic support for Ukraine’s defence. [9] The bilateral agreements prioritised strengthening Ukrainian air defence systems, artillery, long-range strike capabilities, armour, and combat aviation to fend off Russian military aggression.[9]
12 January 2024: The United Kingdom signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[10]
16 February 2024: France signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[9]
16 February 2024: Germany signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[9]
23 February 2024: Denmark signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[9]
24 February 2024: Italy signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[9]
24 February 2024: Canada signed a bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine.[9]
Since then, an extra 25 countries announced that they were ready to sign such long-term bilateral security agreements with Ukraine as well.[9]
1 March 2024: The Netherlands signed a 10-year bilateral security cooperation agreement with Ukraine. [11][12] It joined 31 other countries which had recently concluded bilateral security treaties with Ukraine, or were negotiating to do so.[12]
As of 15 March 2024, parties negotiating long-term bilateral security agreements with Ukraine included the United States, Japan, Romania, Norway, Spain, Greece, Finland, and Latvia, as well as the European Union.[13]
11 April 2024: The Latvia signed a 10-year security agreement with Ukraine.[14]
The neocons are literally arrogantly insane. Putin’s restraint has saved us.....so far.
Don’t even feed the Frog a fly.
:)
No meal worms, no crickets, no grasshoppers ... no snails
So why don’t you contradict the facts I gave you?
Because you are incapable of doing that. You have no arguments.
The only thing yo are trying to do for your mother Kremlin is operating here on FR as a Russian infiltator.
Your fanatical pro Kremlin stance is so extreme that it goes against common sense and human decency.
You are trapped in a Neo-soviet mindset that look like a Twilight Zone.
The only way for you to stop being woke is to condemn the GINSCA.
GINSCA: Globo-Islamo-NeoSoviet-Commie-Alliance.
They are composed of Russia, IRAN/HAMAS, North Korea, Belarus, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
All communists! right? Try to prove me wrong on that one! :)
Except for Iran, which happens to be the world’s most extreme Islamic hell-hole (a close ally to Putin. Right?
Your don’t believe me?
PROOF:
Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/26/putin-forming-axis-of-terror-welcomes-hamas-iran-moscow/
All I have said above is absolute evident truth, and you know it.
You have zero arguments to contradict me.
But I will succeed in making you a Pro-American here one day, I don’t disappear!
I need to give you way more, highly detailed information and more proven facts.
You should not support Iran/Russia/Hamas. But why do you?
So when do we get a “Pro-American” Government here?
So when do we get a “Pro-American” Government here?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In November. Trump will win 100%.
God willing, Trump can get both sides to come to their senses.
Lol You’re right. They eventually go away.
Thanks for posting that big red notice.
You’re wasting your time with your long-winded posts that nobody reads.
And you’re wasting your time trying to change people’s minds.
Exactly
No .... but the significant (unnamed) target is an important one
“And you’re wasting your time trying to change people’s minds.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’m not trying to change Russian infiltrators minds here on FR.
In fact, America would weaken without our traditional Russian enemy and FSB infiltrators. They keep us awake, alert, and always ready to react.
Russian aggressively feeds America’s military defense might. It makes us love to fund our military (and I hope also fund our police). It’s part of the good old “Law and Order” doctrine, which I’m an absolute supporter of. It keeps us safe from all our enemies. The stronger military we have, the more Russia will have to outspend itself into oblivion. Russia is now spending 40% of its ENITRE NATIONAL BUDGET on war! Thanks to whom? America and it NATO allies.
Russia has literally destroyed its own civilian economy. It will kill the Kremlin mismanaged Russian Economy in the long run. In 5 to 8 years I think.
NO country can withstand a 40% war economy for more than 5-8 years.
Look what happened when they did that last time.. it needed in a revolution in 1991.
Thus, I continue to feed the Russian infiltrators here on FR with absolute facts they simply can’t debunk.
Ahhhhhh and I for got!
Another interesting fact :
Russia Raises Income Tax on Rich to Pay for Ukraine War
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-raises-income-tax-on-rich-to-pay-for-ukraine-war-a804cb14
I came out with a statement about the Hamas-Israel situation immediately after the October 7 attacks.
Since you apparently are too effing lazy to look into my actual position on the matter, allow me to return the favor:
You should not support Biden/The Ukraine/international child sex slavers. But why do you?
How can he justify his depraved immorality?
And leftists were screaming about how Trump would start WWIII.
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