Allies say Ukraine can use Western weapons to strike inside Russia | Power & Politics

France and Germany both announced this week that Ukraine is allowed to use the weapons they supplied to strike military targets inside Russia. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly said ‘Russia has no red line’ and Canada has ‘no condition’ on end-user arms shipped to Ukraine. Tom Lawson, a former chief of the defence staff, discusses this shift in position from some NATO countries.

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