Russia’s silence in response to strikes on Engels prompts the US to give long-range weapons to Ukraine, expert
By striking the airfield where Russian strategic aviation is based, Ukraine is encouraging the United States to give it long-range missiles.
This is because Russia does not respond with acts of retaliation, which invalidates the thesis of escalation in the event of the transfer of, for example, ATACAMS missiles to Ukraine.
Ukrainian military expert Ivan Kirichevsky stated this on Radio NV, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“It seems that a new strike on Engels by our drones is an accumulation of arguments so that American politicians, the White House, finally decide to provide us with ATACAMS missiles, because there is a certain political argument that if we are given missiles with a range of 300 kilometers, this will lead to some unprecedented escalation of the conflict on the part of the Russian Federation.
Well, it turns out that our Ukrainian defense forces, with some help from American allies in terms of equipment, which can manifest itself in help to aim these drones or help to put some kind of modern electronics on this drone, roughly speaking, we showed with such a blow that we hit the holy of holies of the Russian military machine is the airfield of strategic bombers, and Russia was unable to counter anything in response, it turns out that several such strikes and for the White House the political reason for any escalation will be finally removed. And, as practice shows, as soon as some safeguards, blocks, and preemptions are removed from the White House, then the American military can be pressed to share something scarce from its reserves,” Kirichevsky said.
Russia's silence in response to the attacks on Engels is prompting the US to provide long-range weapons to Ukraine, says expert