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This appears to be a move to counter the UMPK gliding bombs Russia has started using recently to great effect against Ukraine.

Russia can launch these from Russian soil, safe from Ukrainian fire. These missiles will allow Ukraine to strike grounded planes and weapons stockpiles in Russia.

It's an interesting move, considering the US has been telling Ukraine not to use any western long-range weapons against Russia directly.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Signalling the move, but declining to get into "operational arrangements", John Healey, the new defence secretary, told Sky News that Britain "will do all we can to help Ukraine in their fight to repel Putin's invasion".

Speaking in Washington, Mr Healey said: "We provide weapons equipment where we can for them to defend themselves, and as we do for ourselves and any other nation in conflict, we require, because it's international law, that war is conducted within those rules of the Geneva Convention."

In a post on X after the meeting with Sir Keir, President Zelenskyy said: "This morning, I learned about the permission to use Storm Shadow miss­iles against military targets in Russian territory.

In a lengthy declaration, the alliance's members announced that Ukraine was on an "irreversible" path to NATO membership, with wording important to the Ukrainian government, but likely to agitate Moscow.

Privately, Washington-based European diplomats are more candid, saying that the existing but gradual rebalancing of NATO's power could morph into a brutal shift away from US dominance of the alliance in a Trump second term.

Today, Senate Democrats will have lunch with top Biden advisers Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, as well as the Biden-Harris campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon.


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