The United Kingdom supports Ukrainian troops carrying out strikes on Russian territory, the armed forces minister said, calling it “not necessarily a problem” if Ukraine uses weapons donated by Britain.
James Happy said the United Kingdom believed it was “perfectly legitimate” for Ukraine to identify Russian targets in Russia in order to end attacks on Ukraine.
“Of course we do. “The fact is that Ukraine was a sovereign state that lived peacefully within its owner’s borders, and then another country decided to violate those borders and bring 130,000 troops into their country,” he told Times Radio.
“This is a war between Ukraine and Russia, and in the war Ukraine must strike in the depths of its opponents to attack its logistics lines, fuel supplies, ammunition depots and that’s part of it.
He added that “it is perfectly legitimate for Ukraine to go deep into Russia in order to disrupt logistics, which, if not interrupted, would directly contribute to the death and massacre of Ukrainian soil.”
He said “it is not necessarily a problem” if weapons donated by Britain are used to destroy objects on Russian soil, after accepting that weapons supplied by Ukraine’s allies have the scope to be used across borders.
“There are many countries in the world that use kits that they have imported from other countries. When using these parts of the kit, we tend not to blame (the country that made it), you blame the country that fired it.
Happy said there was “every chance” that Ukrainians would be able to repel Russian forces, a more optimistic tone than that expressed by Boris Johnson in India last week. The prime minister said that the war of attrition in Ukraine meant that Russia could break a possible victory and “the sad thing is that this is a realistic opportunity”.
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Happy said that in the eastern part of the country the conflict will be between two forces that are “much more evenly balanced, where the Ukrainians have the advantage of defensive positions that have been dug and prepared over the past eight years and this will make it extremely difficult. walnut for the Russians.
“And with all the support that Ukrainians receive from around the world, there is every chance that Ukrainians will send them,” he told Sky.
Speaking earlier on the BBC, Happy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was determined to claim a victory before the May 9 victory parade, a time pressure that he said would lead the Russians to make mistakes.
He said commanders would know that it was “wrong in military terms” to try to meet a certain date. “It is absolutely foolish to launch an offensive before you have accumulated all your fighting power and that they are giving away whatever advantage they have won, and in the last week or two there has been incredibly bad weather in Donbass, which means the Earth is not favorable for the maneuver. of the heavy army, “Happy said.
“Putin’s political pressure and the arrogance he demonstrates, his desire to stand on the Kremlin’s footsteps on May 9 and be a hero, mean that thousands of Russian lives will be lost and Russians will pass on the numerical advantage they must have.”
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