“The US State Department said on September 16 that “there are no announcements” about changes in the White House’s policy on this issue”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The most important red line has already been crossed. And it happened when the Russians entered the territory of Ukraine,” she said.
Frederiksen dismissed any suggestion that allowing Ukraine to use Western missiles to strike Russian territory would escalate and draw Kyiv’s allies into the war. Therefore, according to her, “restrictions on the use of weapons should be removed.”
“Now we see Russia getting closer to North Korea and Iran. And I don’t think Russia will be able to wage a full-scale war in Europe without China’s help, unfortunately. So it’s not a European conflict, it’s a global conflict, and its consequences are extremely high,” Mette Frederiksen stressed.
Last week, The Times wrote that Great Britain “will not act alone” on the issue of allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia with long-range weapons.
The British government believes that American guidance systems are crucial to hitting targets with long-range missiles. London believes the U.S. is likely to authorize the strikes at the UN General Assembly session, which opens on September 10, although President Joe Biden’s administration is divided on this.
On September 16, the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, in response to the journalists’ question whether the decision to strike long-range American weapons against targets in Russia had been made, replied that he had “no announcements” about changes in the White House’s policy on this issue.
Before that, after the joint visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his British colleague David Lammy to Kyiv, The Guardian newspaper, citing sources, wrote that Great Britain allowed Ukraine to use Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets on Russian territory. However, no public announcements were made during or after the visit.