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in part to establish a “buffer zone” that would make it more difficult for Russian forces to target important Ukrainian border cities, according to officials.
Such explanations, after days of silence about the purpose of the audacious operation, struck some observers as an inversion of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rhetorical justifications for the occupation of Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian officials, however, signaled that the risky maneuver would not have been necessary if President Joe Biden had not banned Ukrainian forces from firing American-made long-range missiles, known as ATACMS, at key Russian bases in Russia.
Biden has restricted the use of U.S. weapons to attack long-range targets in Russia due to a misgiving that such operations could provoke Putin to escalate or widen the war. Ukrainian officials, on the other hand, hope that their foray into Russia will show that such fears are overblown.
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