The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has voiced support for Ukraine’s right to utilize Western-supplied weaponry to strike targets within Russia.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU Foreign and Defence Ministers in Copenhagen, Kallas stated that military airfields and munitions depots located hundreds of kilometers behind the front lines on Russian territory represent legitimate targets. She affirmed that Ukraine, under international law, possesses the right to attack such legitimate military objectives within Russia in self-defense.
This position emerges against a backdrop of reported restrictions on Ukraine’s use of longer-range weaponry. According to a recent report in the “Wall Street Journal”, citing US government officials, the US Department of Defense has for months been impeding the deployment of extended-range missiles for strikes within Russia. The report indicates that even former US President Joe Biden, with limited exceptions such as in the Kursk region, generally refrained from authorizing Ukraine to use long-range weapons against targets on Russian soil.
