The US has threatened to allow Ukraine to shoot long-range missiles deep into Russia if the front expands

The US will allow Ukraine to hit most of the Russian territory with US weapons if the Russian army "tries to expand the front," said James O'Brien, the assistant secretary of state for Europe. If Russia tries to expand that front, Ukraine will be allowed to hit targets at a long distance," O'Brien said at the hearings of the House of Representatives' International Relations Committee. According to him, the Russian army has almost stopped attacking Kharkiv and after destroying its infrastructure. "We see a dramatic change that Russia can hold its attack against Ukraine due to losing facilities in the zone where fire is allowed," O'Brien emphasized. At the end of May, the US allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles. , including ATACMS. However, according to The Washington Post's sources in Kyiv, Washington has limited the range of strikes to 100 kilometers from the border. Moreover, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were allowed to use the missiles only in places where Russian troops are attacking for the purpose of seizing Ukrainian territory. "It is not about geography or a certain radius, but if Russia attacks or prepares to attack Ukraine from its territory, Ukraine will have the opportunity to retaliate. to the forces that hit it from the border," said the representative of the Pentagon, Major Charlie Dietz. In response, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, said that Moscow could start supplying missiles to the opponents of the Western countries, so that they could strike their facilities. After that, according to Middle East Eye, Putin asked Saudi Arabia to allow the delivery of cruise missiles to Yemen's Houthis, who are trying to block shipping in the Red Sea. However, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was against it.