After much delay, US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday, November 17, that Washington was authorizing kyiv, on a case-by-case basis, to use long-range US missiles to attack Russia in depth.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been calling for it since the spring. Former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, deplored Western reservations about the use of weapons provided in May: “This ties the hands of the Ukrainians behind their backs and makes it very difficult for them to defend themselves. »
On the possibility of using Western weapons to attack Russian territory in depth, as well as on the supply of artillery in 2022, tanks or aircraft in 2023, the Western allies have made small and often late progress in relation to Ukraine’s needs. Always with the fear of crossing the “red lines” marked by Moscow and inflaming a conflict in which they could be considered co-belligerents.
