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A thousand two hundred seventy -eighth day. For months, the United States does not allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to beat the ATACMS and Storm Shadow rockets across Russia. Also USA: Three thousand long -range missiles send to Ukraine

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The US Department of Defense at the end of the spring of 2025 blocked the blows of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Russia using Western long -range weapons, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal said on August 23, referring to unnamed American and British officials. According to the two sources of WSJ, the Ukrainian troops tried at least once to use ATACMS against the goal in Russia, but received a refusal.

The interlocutors of the newspaper said that the Pentagon introduced the procedure for approving such blows. To attack goals in the depths of Russia, Ukraine must obtain permission directly from the US Minister of Defense, Piashe Highset. This requirement applies to both the American long-range ATACMS missiles and the Franco-British Storm Shadow (Scalp), since they use US intelligence data, and there are American components in the Storm Shadow itself.

The mechanism for checking before the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Russia was invented by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the United States on political issues, Elbridge Colerus. In June, he also tightened control over other weapons for Ukraine, which allowed the Pentagon to return weapons intended for the Armed Forces if such a weapon is not enough in the United States. The media also associate Kolbi with the fact that in early July, the United States for a short time suspended supplies to Ukraine.

The US authorities limited the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Russia, since the Donald Trump administration seeks to convince the Kremlin to start peace negotiations, the publication notes.

The White House spokesman Karoline Livitt said the Minister of Defense "is working in close cooperation with President Trump." “President Trump made it clear that the war in Ukraine should end. At the moment, there are no changes in the military position of Russia and Ukraine, ”she said. The Pentagon, the State Department and the Ukrainian authorities did not respond to the request of the newspaper, the Government of Great Britain refused to comment.

The administration of the 46th US President Joe Biden since 2023 put hundreds of ATACMS missiles in Ukraine, notes The Wall Street Journal. The restrictions on the use of these missiles in Russia were removed in the fall of 2024, in the last year of Biden’s presidency, after the DPRK troops entered the war on the side of Russia.

The Pentagon’s demand to coordinate blows to Russia, as the Wall Street Journal writes, actually canceled Biden's decision. Donald Trump said that Biden acted “stupidly”, allowing Ukraine to strike at Russia with ATACMS missiles. “We only aggravate this war and make it even worse,” Trump said in an interview with Time magazine in December 2024.

Update. Ukraine uses a long -range weapon of domestic production for strikes on the territory of Russia and does not discuss these blows with the United States, said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to WSJ, in mid -August, the US presidential administration approved the sale of 3350 ERAM missiles, which, as expected, will go to Ukraine for a month and a half. The range of these missiles is from 240 to 450 kilometers to use them, Ukraine will have to obtain permission from the Pentagon. The total cost of a military assistance package for Ukraine, which included Eram and other weapons, amounted to $ 850 million, and the countries of Europe allocated most of this amount.

Trump said on August 21 that Ukraine would not win Russia if he could not "go on the offensive." According to him, Biden did not allow Ukraine to attack - "only defend himself." American officials told WSJ that this statement by Trump does not mean that the United States decided to allow Ukraine to beat Russia Western weapons without agreement with the Pentagon. However, a high -ranking White House official said that Trump could change his attitude to the expansion of offensive operations against Russia.

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Inna (RF). Morally I am divided to founding.

I admire and are horrified by friends who continue to live this life, plan for years to come - to plan children! I didn’t want to give birth before, seeing the situation in the world, and now - to give my children to the redemption of this meat grinder of propaganda and violence, which could be worse?

I hope they can handle it. Because I can’t cope, I froze in horror, and one of the few reasons to hold on is sometimes to imagine how much I will cry and which mountain will fall off the shoulders when the war ends. The worst thing is that even with this moment nothing will end yet, everything will only begin - we know the story. Unfortunately, not everyone listens to her.

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