The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has voiced support for allowing Ukraine to utilize Western-supplied weaponry to strike targets within Russia.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU Foreign and Defence Ministers in Copenhagen this Thursday and Friday, Kallas stated that military airfields and munitions depots located hundreds of kilometers behind the front lines on Russian territory constitute legitimate targets. The EU’s chief diplomat further emphasized Ukraine’s right, under international law, to strike these legitimate military objectives within Russia in self-defense.
This position emerges against a backdrop of reported restrictions on Ukraine’s use of longer-range weaponry. According to a recent report in the “Wall Street Journal”, citing US government officials, the US Department of Defense has been blocking the deployment of longer-range missiles for attacks within Russia for months. The report indicated that former US President Joe Biden also largely refrained from authorizing Ukraine to utilize long-range weapons against targets on Russian soil, with limited exceptions such as in the Kursk region.