{"id":262270,"date":"2022-12-11T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262270"},"modified":"2022-12-13T08:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:21:43","slug":"us-greenlights-ukrainian-attacks-inside-russia-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262270","title":{"rendered":"US greenlights Ukrainian attacks inside Russia \u2013 The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u2013 Dec 10, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US has quietly given Ukraine the go-ahead to launch long-range strikes against targets inside Russian territory, The Times reported on Friday, citing sources. The Pentagon has apparently changed its stance on the matter as it has become less concerned that such attacks could escalate the conflict.<\/p>\n

According to a US defense source interviewed by the outlet, the Pentagon is now \u201cnot saying to Kiev, \u2018Don\u2019t strike the Russians [in Russia or Crimea].\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t tell them what to do. It\u2019s up to them how they use their weapons,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that Washington only demands that Kiev conforms to international law and the Geneva conventions when using US-supplied weapons.<\/p>\n

However, the Pentagon has revised the evaluation of threats linked to the Ukraine conflict, particularly on whether providing Kiev with arms might trigger a direct clash between NATO and Russia, the report says.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still using the same escalatory calculations but the fear of escalation has changed since the beginning,\u201d<\/em> a US official told the outlet, arguing that the calculus had changed due to \u201cbrutality the Ukrainians are being subjected to by the Russians.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, Pentagon officials are now reportedly \u201cseriously\u201d<\/em> considering Ukraine\u2019s requests for long-range weapons that could be used for strikes deep inside Russia. \u201cNothing is off the table,\u201d<\/em> a senior US defense official told The Times.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Ukraine launched an attack on two Russian air bases in Ryazan and Saratov regions, both several hundred kilometers from Kiev-controlled territory, using a number of \u201cSoviet-made\u201d<\/em> drones, according to Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry. The raid \u201cfatally injured\u201d<\/em> three service members, with another four being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, following the attack, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that Washington had \u201cneither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The report comes as Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba claimed on Thursday that, while Washington and Kiev agree that Ukrainian forces will not use US-supplied weapons to attack most Russian territory, this does not apply to Crimea.<\/p>\n

In September, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the US that, should it provide Kiev with long-range weapons, this would cross a \u201cred line\u201d<\/em> and make America \u201ca direct party to the conflict.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Russian spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned the US in September that, should it provide Kiev with long-range weapons, it would cross a \u201cred line\u201d and make America \u201ca direct party to the conflict.\u201d Washington now seems ready to ignore her warning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":256025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262280,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262270\/revisions\/262280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}