{"id":115621,"date":"2024-11-18T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/moscow-warns-the-us-over-allowing-ukraine-to-hit-russian-soil-with-longer-range-weapons-the-associated-press\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:31:41","slug":"moscow-warns-the-us-over-allowing-ukraine-to-hit-russian-soil-with-longer-range-weapons-the-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/moscow-warns-the-us-over-allowing-ukraine-to-hit-russian-soil-with-longer-range-weapons-the-associated-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons – The Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision authorizing the use of the US-supplied longer-range missiles by Ukraine to strike inside Russia will \u201cadd fuel to the fire\u201d in the conflict.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-story apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a police officer, right, evacuates an elderly resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, police officers evacuate an injured resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Moscow-appointed head of Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Yevgeny Balitsky during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision authorizing the use of the US-supplied longer-range missiles by Ukraine to strike inside Russia will \u201cadd fuel to the fire\u201d in the conflict.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-story apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish the fire following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-story apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a police officer, right, evacuates an elderly resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a police officer, right, evacuates an elderly resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, police officers evacuate an injured resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, police officers evacuate an injured resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Moscow-appointed head of Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Yevgeny Balitsky during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Moscow-appointed head of Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Yevgeny Balitsky during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s decision<\/a><\/span> to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds \u201cfuel to the fire\u201d of the war<\/a><\/span> and would escalate international tensions even higher.
Biden\u2019s shift in policy added an uncertain, new factor to the conflict on the eve of the 1,000-day milestone<\/a><\/span> since Russia began its full-scale invasion in 2022.
It also came as a Russian ballistic missile with cluster munitions struck a residential area of Sumy in northern Ukraine, killing 11 people, including two children, and injuring 84 others. Another missile barrage sparked apartment fires in the southern port of Odesa, killing at least 10 people and injuring 43, including a child, Ukraine\u2019s Interior Ministry said.
Washington is easing limits on what Ukraine can strike with its American-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs<\/a><\/span>, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Sunday, after months of ruling out such a move over fears of escalating the conflict and bringing about a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
The Kremlin was swift in its condemnation.
\u201cIt is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps and they have been talking about this, to continue adding fuel to the fire and provoking further escalation of tensions around this conflict,\u201d spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n

The scope of the new firing guidelines isn\u2019t clear. But the change came after the U.S., South Korea and NATO said recently that North Korean troops are in Russia<\/a><\/span> and apparently are being deployed to help Moscow drive Ukrainian troops out of Russia\u2019s Kursk border region.
Biden\u2019s decision was almost entirely triggered by the entry of North Korea into the fight, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, and was made just before he left for Peru to attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation<\/a><\/span> summit at the end of last week.
Russia also is slowly pushing Ukraine\u2019s outnumbered army backward<\/a><\/span> in the eastern Donetsk region. It has also conducted a devastating aerial campaign<\/a><\/span> against civilian areas in Ukraine.
Peskov referred journalists to a statement made by President Vladimir Putin in September in which he said allowing Ukraine to target Russia would significantly raise the stakes.
It would change \u201cthe very nature of the conflict dramatically,\u201d Putin said at the time. \u201cThis will mean that NATO countries \u2014 the United States and European countries \u2014 are at war with Russia.\u201d
Peskov claimed that Western countries supplying longer-range weapons also provide targeting services to Kyiv. \u201cThis fundamentally changes the modality of their involvement in the conflict,\u201d he said.
Putin warned in June that Moscow could provide longer-range weapons<\/a><\/span> to others to strike Western targets if NATO allowed Ukraine to use its allies\u2019 arms to attack Russian territory. He also reaffirmed Moscow\u2019s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty.
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office in about two months, has raised uncertainty about whether his administration would continue vital military support to Ukraine. He has also vowed to quickly end the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a muted response to the approval that he and his government have been requesting of Biden for more than a year.
\u201cToday, much is being said in the media about us receiving permission for the relevant actions,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address Sunday.
\u201cBut strikes are not made with words. Such things are not announced. The missiles will speak for themselves,\u201d he said.
The new policy\u2019s consequences on the battlefield are uncertain. ATACMS, which have a range of about 300 kilometers (190 miles), can reach targets far behind the about 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line in Ukraine, but they have relatively short range compared with other types of ballistic and cruise missiles.
The policy change came \u201ctoo late to have a major strategic effect,\u201d said Patrick Bury, a senior associate professor in security at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.
\u201cThe ultimate kind of impact it will have is to probably slow down the tempo of the Russian offensives which are now happening,\u201d he said.
Ukraine could target enemy troops concentrated in Kursk or logistics hubs or command headquarters, Bury added.
On a political level, the move \u201cis a boost to the Ukrainians and it gives them a window of opportunity to try and show that they are still viable and worth supporting\u201d as Trump prepares to enter the White House, said Matthew Savill, director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
The cue for the policy change was the arrival in Russia of North Korean troops, according to Glib Voloskyi, an analyst at the CBA Initiatives Center, a Kyiv-based think tank.
\u201cThis is a signal the Biden administration is sending to North Korea and Russia, indicating that the decision to involve North Korean units has crossed a red line,\u201d he told AP.
Russian lawmakers and state media bashed the West over what they called an escalatory step, and threatened a harsh response.
\u201cBiden, apparently, decided to end his presidential term and go down in history as \u2018Bloody Joe,\u2019\u201d senior lawmaker Leonid Slutsky told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of Russian parliament, called it \u201ca very big step toward the start of World War III\u201d and an attempt to \u201creduce the degree of freedom for Trump.\u201d
Russian newspapers offered similar predictions of doom. \u201cThe madmen who are drawing NATO into a direct conflict with our country may soon be in great pain,\u201d Rossiyskaya Gazeta said.
Some NATO allies welcomed the move.
President Andrzej Duda of Poland, which borders Ukraine, praised the decision as \u201cmuch needed\u201d and calling it a \u201cvery important, maybe even a breakthrough moment\u201c in the war.
\u201cIn the recent days, we have seen the decisive intensification of Russian attacks on Ukraine, above all, those missile attacks where civilian objects are attacked, where people are killed, ordinary Ukrainians,\u201d Duda said.
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna of Russian neighbor Estonia said easing restrictions on Ukraine was \u201ca good thing.\u201d
\u201cWe have been saying that from the beginning \u2014 that no restrictions must be put on the military support,\u201d he said at a meeting of senior European Union diplomats in Brussels. \u201cAnd we need to understand that situation is more serious (than) it was even maybe like a couple of months ago.\u201d
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said he\u2019s not \u201copening the champagne\u201d yet as it is unclear exactly what restrictions have been lifted and whether Ukraine has enough of the U.S. weapons to make a difference.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, known for his pro-Russian views, described Biden\u2019s decision as \u201can unprecedented escalation\u201d that would prolong the war.
Matthew Lee in Washington, Lorne Cook in Brussels, Danica Kirka in London, Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv and Karel Janicek in Prague, Czech Republic contributed.
Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/span>
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

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