US President, Joe Biden has cleared Kyiv to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official said, hours after Russia targeted Ukraine’s power grid in a deadly barrage.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, was confirming reports from major news platforms that the major policy shift — long demanded by Ukraine — was in response to North Korea deploying troops to help Moscow’s war effort.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long pushed for authorisation from Washington to use the powerful Army Tactical Missile System, known by its initials ATACMS, to hit targets inside Russia.
Poland was among the first to welcome the development.
“With the entry into the war of North Korea troops and (Sunday’s) massive attack of Russian missiles, President Biden responded in a language that (Russian President) V.Putin understands,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski posted on X.
“The victim of aggression has the right to…