While Ukraine is currently not allowed to use American-supplied weapons for long-range strikes into Russian territory, this might change in the future, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said.
Sullivan spoke on Friday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. Asked whether Washington was open to relaxing the “extreme limitations” on Ukraine’s use of US weapons, he would not rule anything out.
“As the war has evolved, our support has evolved,” Sullivan said. “I can’t give a definitive answer to that question for the future.”
The White House reportedly gave Kiev permission to use some of the American missiles to attack military targets across the border from Kharkov Region in late May.
“Circumstances changed. Russia actually launched a new offensive directly across the border towards Kharkov, and common sense dictated that Ukraine had to be able to fire back against that offensive,” Sullivan explained.