Ukraine must be free to use EU-supplied weapons against Russian military targets. This was stated in Brussels by EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell during a joint doorstep with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “We must lift restrictions on the use of weapons against Russian military targets,” Borrell said, referring to a critical issue in the 900-day war.
“The weapons we give to Ukraine must be fully usable and restrictions must be lifted to allow Ukrainians to target the places where Russian attacks have begun,” Borrell said ahead of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers.
“If we are provided with sufficient missiles and allowed to strike, we will significantly reduce Russia’s ability to damage our critical infrastructure and improve the condition of our forces on the ground,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in Brussels. “We have shown that we can defeat Russia,” Kuleba continued, reiterating the need for Ukrainian forces to be allowed to “strike legitimate military targets deep inside Russia.”
The scenario of the conflict changed with the attack of Kiev on the Kursk region of Russia. “The Ukrainians showed great strategic courage by launching an attack on Russian territory,” Borrell said. This operation in Kursk dealt a blow to Putin’s rhetoric about this war. This is strategically important news, but at the same time Russia continues to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure. It is clear that Russia wants to completely destroy Ukraine’s power grid in order to push the population into the cold and darkness next winter,” he said.
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