Anonymous ID: 29975c Nov. 21, 2024, 7:09 a.m. No.22031155   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1163 >>1316

21 Nov, 2024 14:22

 

Ukraine to ask Biden for Tomahawks – lawmaker

 

Kiev will try to persuade the US to authorize the use of the cruise missiles before Trump takes office, according to Egor Cherniev

 

Ukrainian officials arereportedly planning to demand that Washington send Tomahawk missiles to Kievand allow their use against targets deep inside Russia before President Joe Biden’s term is up, a Ukrainian lawmaker has told Politico.

 

Tomahawk cruise missiles, which entered service in the US in the 1980s,have a range of up to 2500 kilometers – seven times that of ATACMSmissiles.

 

Earlier this week, several media outlets reported that the White House had authorized the use of ATACMS missiles by the Ukrainian military for strikes on Russia’s internationally recognized territory. Washington has not officially confirmed the reports, but Moscow has said several of the missiles have already been fired into Russia’s Bryansk Region.

 

In an article published on Wednesday, Politico reported that Ukrainian officials do not see the ATACMS decision as sufficient to change the situation on the battlefield, and are hoping for more powerful weaponry from the US.

 

According to Egor Cherniev, a Ukrainian member of parliament and head of the country’s delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Kiev is considering approaching the Biden administration to allow the use ofTomahawk missiles to hit Russian military factories that are currently “out of Ukraine’s reach.”

 

He noted that Ukrainian officials are concerned that the incoming Trump administration may be more hesitant to grant such authorizations, and could instead use them “as leverage or as an argument in negotiations with Russians.”

 

“But we will have two months prior to this probable decision. At least for now, we have this time,” Cherniev said.

 

The potential transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine was previously reported to be one of the secret points of Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called “victory plan” which he published last month. The New York Times claimed, citing a senior US official, that the missiles were requested as part of a proposed “non-nuclear deterrence package,” given their range.

 

However, the NYT reported at the time thatWashington had refused Kiev’s demand for Tomahawks, calling it “a totally unfeasible request.”

 

Moscow has suggested that Kiev’s demand for the cruise missiles is evidence of theUkrainian leadership’s “nervousness” due to failures on the battlefield.

 

“The dynamics on the frontline are quite obvious. Everyone sees it well, both in our country and in Western countries. Against this background, of course, the Kiev regime is beginning to show considerable nervousness,”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists last month. He added thatZelensky’s “victory plan” boiled down to “drawing Western countries completely into war up to their ears and legitimizing it.”

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/607988-ukraine-ask-us-tomahawks/

 

(I hope to God Trump and military arrest all the leaders in Ukraine for the billions they've stollen. Once this war is over these people will flee Ukraine with the billions.)

Anonymous ID: 29975c Nov. 21, 2024, 7:33 a.m. No.22031300   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1316

UKRAINE CRISIS

21 NOV, 06:41

Japanese lawmaker praises Putin's restraint amid decision to strike deep into Russia

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell confirmed that the US administration had lifted restrictions for US-supplied missiles to be used for strikes up to 300 kilometers inside Russia

TOKYO, November 21. /TASS/.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is showing restraint amid US President Joe Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with American ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, Japanese upper house of parliament member Muneo Suzuki told a TASS correspondent.

 

"President [Vladimir] Putin is showing restraint in this situation," he said, stressing that Biden's decision was "simply unthinkable." Suzuki also said that the Russian president is acting in a measured way in the current situation. "But President Putin has made it clear that all retaliatory measures will be taken if there is a threat to Russia and the Russian people," the Japanese lawmaker added.

 

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell confirmed that the US administration had lifted restrictions for US-supplied missiles to be used for strikes up to 300 kilometers inside Russia.He noted that the issue had been discussed at an EU foreign ministers’ meeting, but the parties had failed to come to a consensus on lifting the restrictions, ruling that every member state would decide for itself.

 

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled that Moscow’s position on the Ukrainian strikes by US missiles deep into Russian territory was clearly and unambiguously formulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in September. According to him, this decision means a "qualitatively new round of escalation of tensions."

 

On September 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out that a potential decision to use Western long-range weapons against Russia would mean nothing less than the direct involvement of the United States and other NATO countries in the war in Ukraine. This would drastically alter the nature of this conflict, and Russia would be forced to take appropriate measures in response to the escalating threats, the Russian president warned.Putin emphasized that Ukraine would not be able to strike deep into Russian territory without Western support, as it would require satellite intelligence and flight missions to do so.

 

https://tass.com/world/1875667