John Kirby, White House spokesman, said that the North American country is not seeking “a conflict with Russia, another nuclear power.”
Joe Biden, president of the United States. Photo: Reuters
John Kirbyspokesperson for the White House, assured this Sunday that the president of the United States, Joe Biden does not want to be responsible for triggering World War III, despite allowing Ukraine to launch attacks against Russian territory with American weapons.
“The president said he doesn’t want to be responsible for starting World War III. “We are not seeking a conflict with Russia, another nuclear power.”Kirby said in an interview with ABC.
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The spokesman released this statement after being asked whether Washington was not risking get dragged into the conflict in Ukraineafter kyiv was allowed to launch attacks on Russian territories.
On the other hand, Kirby pointed out that the United States allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to carry out attacks with American-made weapons in “military sites, weapons positionsthat kind of thing, logistics, bases of operations that the Russians were using to create a sort of buffer zone” in the Russian areas near Kharkiv.
At the same time, he noted that Biden “assured that included all the ramifications of the petition and approved it.
The US opened an artillery factory to accelerate the production of projectiles for Ukraine. Photo: Reuters
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Last Thursday, May 30, the US Government gave Ukraine permission to attack inside Russianear the Kharkiv area, using weapons provided by the United States.
“The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine can use American weapons for counterattack purposes in Kharkiv, so that Ukraine can respond to Russian forces attacking them or preparing to attack them,” a US official told the newspaper Political.
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Likewise, the country’s policy does not allow long range attacks within Russia “has not changed.” For his part, another official said that Washington had made the decision to allow Ukraine “flexibility” to defend against attacks.
Given the news, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, He noted: “It is a step forward towards the objective that we had talked about before, which will give us the possibility of defending the people who live in the towns along the border line.”
Zelensky said unable to reveal more details on the conditions under which the United States will allow Ukraine to hit Russian territory with the weapons they send it.
