{"id":384609,"date":"2024-08-22T14:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/08\/22\/borrell-restrizioni-armi-ucraina\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T18:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:53:40","slug":"according-to-the-eu-high-representative-kyiv-should-be-allowed-to-use-western-weapons-in-russian-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/08\/22\/according-to-the-eu-high-representative-kyiv-should-be-allowed-to-use-western-weapons-in-russian-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"According to the EU High Representative, Kyiv should be allowed to use Western weapons in Russian territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – There seems to be no ambiguity in the European Union’s position on the Ukrainian incursion into the Russian Kursk region, which has already entered its third week. As Kyiv troops continue to advance<\/strong> into Russian\u00a0territory, from Brussels comes full support for the surprise attack<\/strong> orchestrated by Ukraine. To the point\u00a0that High Representative Josep Borrell suggested that NATO partners “lift restrictions<\/strong>” still preventing the Ukrainian army from using Western weapons systems to strike directly enemy soil.<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>,\u00a0 the EU diplomacy chief called the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk “a\u00a0severe blow to Russian President Putin’s narrative<\/strong>” that the conflict is going in the direction envisioned by the Kremlin. On the contrary, according to Borrell, the ongoing cross-border offensive strengthens Ukraine, which stands to gain in eventual negotiations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Lifting restrictions on the use of capabilities (provided by the West to Ukraine, Ed<\/em>.) versus\u00a0the Russian military involved in\u00a0aggression of Ukraine, in accordance with international law, would have several important effects,<\/strong>” according to the High Representative. “Strengthen Ukrainian self-defense<\/strong>,” for example, by depriving Russia of bases from which it launches attacks against cities and infrastructure,\u00a0“save lives” (of Ukrainian civilians, of course) and “help to advance peace efforts<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Borrell’s comments seem directed primarily at Western chancelleries that have not yet allowed Kyiv to use the weapons they supplied directly on Russian territory due to fears of an escalation of\u00a0the conflict<\/strong>. For example, London recently clarified that the equipment it\u00a0sent to Ukraine is for defense, not offensive. On the other hand, for now, Germany, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, and Sweden have allowed Ukraine the use of their weapons within Russian\u00a0borders.<\/p>\n

As the High Representative’s spokesman, Peter Stano, reiterated to Eunews,\u00a0the transfer of weapons\u00a0and war material and equipment to Ukraine is a matter of bilateral agreements between Kyiv and the supplier states<\/strong>. Not to be overwhelmed by Russian aggression, the former Soviet republic “needs to defend itself in the best and most effective way possible, and the High Representative thinks this would be possible by lifting restrictions on the use of weapons provided by the West to fight the enemy,” he said.<\/p>\n

Nothing has changed since Stano earlier this month underlined<\/a>\u00a0that “Ukraine has the right to strike the enemy wherever necessary on its territory, but also in the enemy’s territory,” referring to the Kursk incursion, which had begun a few days earlier.\u00a0So far, crossing Moscow’s “red lines” has not led to a sharp increase in the intensity of the conflict (e.g., through the dreaded use of tactical nuclear devices), which has led Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to speak of a “bluff” by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Borrell, lifting restrictions imposed by NATO partners on the Ukrainian use of military equipment in Russia would allow a truce to be reached more quickly. Some chancelleries have already given the green light to Zelensky’s troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":384577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25802,25792,25803,25789,28789,28790],"class_list":["post-384609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-josep-borrell-en","tag-russia-in-2","tag-ukrainian-en-2","tag-armi-allucraina-en","tag-weapons-allukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385217,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384609\/revisions\/385217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}