The British Prime Minister is in Washington with the Foreign Secretary David Lammy meeting with the US President Joe Biden to discuss the war in Ukraine.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said that he and Lammy have been listening to officials in Kyiv “very intently” on discussing lifting restrictions to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia.
Blinken said the US has “continuously adjusted and adapted based on battlefield conditions” in Ukraine to change the use of various weaponry as the dynamics of the war changes.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said that he believes Blinken will actually deliver the news to officials in Kyiv if and when the restrictions are lifted.
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“What I’ve seen and what I’ve been briefed on, it looks like that’s the message they’re going to give them, that they can use them cross-border,” McCaul said.
“It sounded promising to me.”
Vladimir Putin has drawn a new “red line” and if the West crosses it, which they most likely will then this will be considered a “direct participation” of NATO in the war.
The Kremlin leader said, “It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict.
“This will mean that NATO countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”
Putin told Russian state television, “So this is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not.
“It is a question of deciding whether or not NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict.
“This will be their direct participation, and this, of course, will significantly change the very essence – the very nature – of the conflict.”
Russia’s Defence Minister said at a security conference in China on Friday there is a real potential for conflict between nuclear powers.
RIA news agency quoted Alexander Fomin who is in Beijing saying, “In order to ensure conditions for forcibly coercing Russia into negotiations according to Kyiv’s formulas, NATO countries are making plans to send their troops to Ukraine.”
Fomin warned the West the Kremlin could “combine potential” with Beijing if war is declared against NATO or the West.
