Washington has made clear that Kyiv cannot use long-range missiles to strike within Russian territory. U.S. said Russia’s targeting and killing of at least 14 civilians in Ukraine with North Korea-supplied long-range missiles motivated Biden’s decision to help Ukraine’s defense by sending ATACMS.
A firefighter extinguishes the remains of a missile, which Ukrainian authorities and other investigators said was made in North Korea , at the site of a Russia n strike in Kharkiv on January 2, 2024. “The U.S. administration, which had kept itself aloof from the delivery of long-range missiles, saying that it did not encourage Ukraine 's strike on the Russia n mainland, has betrayed more clearly its true colors as a harasser of peace, aggravating war by providing Ukraine with such missiles.
Washington warned Moscow last year that if Russia used long-range ballistic missiles in Ukraine, the U.S. would provide Kyiv with the same capability, The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to expand “the sanitary zone” — the term Moscow uses for Ukrainian territory that is not under Russian occupation, and a “legitimate military target” for Russian attacks. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry PeskovIn a statement, the North Korean Ministry of National Defense implied direct U.S. participation in the war, calling the government in Kyiv “the Zelenskiy puppet clique,” and promised victory to “the heroic Russian army and people.
North Korea does not appear to have applied similar restraints on Russia’s use of its ballistic missiles. The U.N. investigators also said, the missile’s trajectory “indicates it was launched within the territory of the Russian Federation” and that "such a location, if the missile was under control of Russian forces, would probably indicate procurement by nationals of the Russian Federation.
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