{"id":288398,"date":"2024-05-29T06:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288398"},"modified":"2024-05-30T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:47:27","slug":"on-the-bandwagon-eus-borrell-joins-nato-chief-to-back-ukraine-right-to-strike-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288398","title":{"rendered":"On the bandwagon: EU\u2019s Borrell joins NATO chief to back Ukraine right to strike Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 May 28, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Josep Borrell<\/p><\/div>\n

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has backed Ukraine\u2019s use of Western arms to strike targets in Russian, a day after a similar suggestion by the NATO secretary general.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“According with the law of war, it is perfectly possible and there is no contradiction,\u201d Borrell said at the start of a meeting with European Union defense ministers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I could retaliate or I could fight against the one who fights against me from his territory,” he added.<\/p>\n

He asked countries to \u201cbalance\u201d the risk of escalation against what he called Ukraine’s need to defend itself.<\/p>\n

This came a day after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said \u201cthe time has come\u201d for allies to consider lifting restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons in attacks on the Russian territory.<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg claimed on Tuesday that his suggestion would not make NATO and its members part of the conflict.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin on Monday stressed that NATO was already in direct confrontation with Russia, and that the US-led military alliance was escalating the conflict in Ukraine with military rhetoric.<\/p>\n

The issue of providing Kiev with longer-range, more powerful arms that could strike targets deep inside Russia is controversial as some states fear this could escalate tensions and risks dragging Europe into a wider war.<\/p>\n

In February 2022, Russia launched what it called a special military operation in Ukraine partly to prevent NATO\u2019s eastward expansion after warning that the military alliance was following an \u201caggressive line\u201d against Moscow.<\/p>\n

Russia has said that Western countries have been fueling the flames of the war with their unchecked delivery of weapons to Ukraine, warning that such a flow of weapons to Kiev will only prolong the conflict.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Also see:<\/p>\n

Cameron backs Ukrainian strikes on targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n