What happened
The Biden administration is considering urgent requests to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia, especially sites near Ukraine's northeast border that Russia uses to rain missiles and aerial bombs on Kharkiv and the troops defending it.
Who said what
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the U.S. hasn't "encouraged or enabled strikes outside of Ukraine," but will "adapt and adjust" its stance as need arises.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that Kyiv's "right to self-defense includes hitting legitimate targets outside Ukraine," and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday endorsed letting Ukraine "neutralize" Russian "military sites from which the missiles are fired." Canada, Britain and America's other NATO allies have already said "they have no problem with Ukraine's using their weapons to hit Russia," Politico said.
What next?
Some of President Joe Biden's advisers believe a reversal of the U.S. ban is "inevitable," with "severe restrictions" on hitting targets deep inside Russia, The New York Times said. Biden "mostly likely will never announce" the shift, but "American artillery shells and missiles will just start landing on Russian military targets."
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