Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, desires his western allies to permit using their Storm Shadow missiles to bomb targets inside Russia.
Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and safety editor, tells Michael Safi why US president Joe Biden’s resolution over the missiles is a fragile one.
“They help you strike deep into one other nation in a means that adjustments the political calculus as a lot because it adjustments the army calculus,” Dan says.
“So that you’re enthusiastic about airfields, missile launch websites, army websites, logistics websites, however you get one thing unsuitable, and also you kill lots of civilians, you’re beginning to be in a really totally different dialogue … And I feel the US has been frightened that Russia would possibly escalate dramatically if sure sorts of western weapons are given to Ukraine.”
On Russian state tv final week, the president, Vladimir Putin, stated: “This might in a big means change the very nature of the battle. It could imply that Nato nations, the US, European nations, are at struggle with Russia.”
Is Putin bluffing or is that this actually his purple line?
{Photograph}: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Kremlin Poo/Planet Pix/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock
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