As Ukraine plans on raising an army of a quarter of a million soldiers, it also wants to use NATO weapons to bomb Russia, as we read in al-Jazeera:

It plans to raise a quarter of a million new troops this year, but training and equipping them will take time. A senior NATO official told The New York Times that Ukraine would not be able to mount a large-scale counteroffensive until next year.

And Ukraine awaits a key decision on the part of Western governments supplying many of its weapons: to allow it to use them to attack inside Russia.

“It is more difficult and costly to shoot down enemy missiles in the air than to destroy [the aircraft that carry them] at airfields, missiles at arsenals, or target factories that produce deadly weapons,” wrote Havrylyuk.

Germany and the US have accompanied their weapons with restrictions on use inside Russia.

The United Kingdom, which had been thought to have imposed no such restrictions, may have done so as well, it was revealed in the past week, when incoming Foreign Secretary David Lammy told European Pravda he was “reflecting on” Ukrainian requests to hit airfields with British Storm Shadow missiles and had “undertaken to go away and look at some other things”.