Ukraine Says It Might Use U.S. Weapons to Invade Russia
To understand this matter, some fundamental background must first be briefly presented; and it is this (the remainder of this paragraph):
Ukraine’s Government has consistently promised that it will retake Crimea, which had been part of Russia during 1783-1954 when the Soviet leader Khrushchev then transferred it to Ukraine, and which subsequently broke away from Ukraine in 2014 to rejoin Russia. Russia has re-established its sovereignty there after a 2014 referendum in Crimea showed over 90% support by voters for Russia to do so.
That’s the background. –– On June 1st, when the White House announced that it would be sending to Ukraine weapons that might be used for invading Russia, Jonathan Finer, deputy White House national security adviser, said Washington had asked Ukraine for assurances the missiles would not strike inside Russia. On June 3rd, Ukraine’s Government rejected that request. At the time when Biden made that announcement on June 1st, Reuters noted that,
“Biden announced the plan to give Ukraine precision HIMARS rocket systems after receiving assurances from Kyiv that it would not use them to hit targets inside Russian territory.”