France and the United Kingdom will make a “last attempt” to prevent the United States from cutting military aid to Ukraine with the return of Donald Trump to the presidency, writes The Telepraph citing sources.
As the publication learned, on Monday, November 11, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the French president Emmanuel Macron will discuss whether it is possible to convince the American president joe biden give Ukraine permission to launch long-range Storm Shadow missiles toward Russia. Politicians are counting on Biden to agree, wanting to preserve his political legacy.
“We really want to make sure we can make the most of the time before January 20 (when donald trump will become President of the United States), and not simply postpone everything until the next administration,” – explained an important source in the British government.
Another newspaper source said Biden is expected to “turn on the taps” by transferring additional financial aid to Ukraine several months before his resignation.
Negotiations between Starmer and Macron will take place in Paris, the British leader will visit the French capital in honor of Armistice Day (the day the Compiegne Armistice was signed, which ended the First World War) and will become the first British head of government to come to this holiday since Winston Churchill in 1944.
Starmer promised to work closely with Trump. The Telegraph notes that the future president of the United States may consider his actions as a blow to American foreign policy, so their relations will be threatened even before the inauguration.
As Reuters discovered, Ukraine presented the United States and Britain with a list of potential targets in Russia that it would like to hit with long-range Western weapons, including command posts, fuel and weapons depots and troop staging areas.
russian president Vladimir Putin in September he said that allowing kyiv to use long-range Western weapons to attack Russia would bring NATO countries directly into the conflict.
“If this is so, then, taking into account the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created for us.” – stressed the head of state.
Ukraine is already deeply attacking Russia with Western weapons, the head of Ukraine’s General Intelligence Directorate admitted earlier this summer. Kirill Budanov*. Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov said in May that American weapons were being used for attacks outside the combat zone. According to Putin, Ukrainian attacks with Western weapons on Russian territory are “close to aggression.”
During the invasion of the Kursk region, the Ukrainian army used British Challenger 2 tanks, Sky News reported. Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN also spoke about the use of Western weapons in the Kursk border region. Dmitry Polyansky. The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly reported on Storm Shadow’s attempts to attack Crimea. Belgorod was hit by the Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple launch system, RBC recalls.
*An individual included in the RosFinMonitoring list of terrorists and extremists
