Following his statement at a London news conference that Vladimir Putin’s forces will “likely use them within weeks in Ukraine” and that Moscow had received short-range missiles from Iran, Antony Blinken made the remark.
In an effort to put further pressure on Moscow to stop the conflict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the US and other Western allies to permit Ukraine to utilize long-range missiles to strike targets in Russia.
During an interview with Yalda Hakim for her News program The World, Mr. Blinken was asked if, given the ongoing war, the US president would think about permitting such a transfer.
Since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Blinken claimed that the US had ensured that the country had “what it needed, when it needed it, to be effective in repelling the Russian aggression”.
However, he noted, Washington also needed to take other aspects into account, such whether or whether Ukraine’s military can maintain and use the “sophisticated systems” that Western allies are supplying.
“All of those things have to go into these decisions,” he went on. However, I can guarantee you that we have changed and improved at every turn, so we’re not ruling anything out just yet.
