Blinken to announce permission for Ukraine to strike deep into Russia in Kyiv

Joe Biden will discuss authorizing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes on Russian territory with the British prime minister on Friday.

This was announced by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a press conference.

The Secretary of State also announced sanctions against Iran over Russia’s supply of short-range ballistic missiles, reports said.

Anthony Blinken and the British Foreign Secretary will visit Ukraine this week.

It is reported that the visit will take place at the end of the week. At the same time, The Washington Post reports that the visit may take place as early as Wednesday.

The media report that the decision to strike with long-range weapons deep into the territory of the Russian Federation has already been made.

Bloomberg writes that the U.S. position on long-range strikes has changed because of Iran’s supply of ballistic missiles to Russia.

Axios journalist Juligrace Brufke writes in X that such information was told to her by the Speaker of the House of Representatives Michael McCaul.

“I talked to Blinken two days ago, and he is traveling with his counterpart from the UK to Kyiv to basically tell them that they will allow them [to hit Russia with ATACMS],” the journalist quotes McCaul as saying.