There was no white smoke emanating from the chimney on the thorny issue of allowing western-supplied precision missiles to be used by Ukraine against Russia after Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met US President Joe Biden last week.
As it stands, Washington doesn’t appear ready to take the gloves off entirely and allow Ukraine to target Russia’s airfields with long-range U.S. missiles quite yet — though it may withdraw restrictions on the U.K.’s Storm Shadows, which use U.S. technology.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been asking for permission to use British Storm Shadow missiles and U.S.-made ATACMS missiles to hit targets deeper inside Russia for months.