Gen. Clark: Ukraine should be allowed to strike as necessary.

[BootinUp]

[elleng]

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Ukraine should be allowed to use Western weapons to strike as deep inside Russia as it is necessary, including targeting power plants, Wesley Clark, NATO's former supreme commander in Europe, said on June 14.

Speaking online during the Black Sea Security Forum in comments reported by Ukrinform, Clark said it was crucial Ukraine was allowed to do what was needed to force Putin to abandon the continuation of aggression.

In May the U.S. allowed Ukraine to use HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, GMLRS rockets, and artillery against Russian territory near Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts.

However, Washington still prohibits Ukraine from using ATACMS and other long-range U.S.-supplied weapons for strikes deeper inside Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 2 said the U.S. should also lift the ban on long-range strikes in order to protect lives, arguing that airfields deep inside Russia are used to launch strikes on Ukraine.

Speaking a few days later, U.S. President Joe Biden told ABC News that Washington was not authorizing Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes with U.S.-supplied weapons on locations far from the border with Ukraine, such as Moscow.

[BootinUp]

2. Thank you

[Emrys]

3. Everything you say is true.

However, Ukraine has demonstrated that it has homegrown weaponry that's capable of evading what Russian air defences there are and striking deep in its territory, well beyond the range of ATACMS etc., so it's more important and significant that attitudes to using US-supplied weaponry closer to home in the key border zones are improving.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Hey, as long as the Russians keep sending their missiles all over Ukraine to hit targets, some of which aren't

military, anything is game for Ukraine to hit back w/ their missiles.