The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were allowed to strike all over the territory of russia with weapons supplied to it by the Netherlands.
This was reported by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
In particular, the Minister of Defense of the country, Ruben Brekelmans, stated that Ukraine can use the weapons of the Netherlands on the territory of russia for protection in accordance with international law.
"Ukraine has the right to self-defense. And if the country is attacked from the border areas or from russian airfields, it can target military facilities. The same applies to enemy missiles - they can also be intercepted by our weapons over russia," he said.
Brekelmans also added that "international law is not limited by distance" and that "the right to self-defense does not stop 100 kilometers from the border." "We did not impose any operational distance restrictions on Ukraine," he said.
The minister clarified that the permission to strike russia also directly concerns the F-16 fighter jets that the Netherlands will transfer to Ukraine.
In addition, Brekelmans called on other Western countries to lift restrictions on the use of weapons they supply to Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on September 6, the head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, stated that Germany has not changed its position regarding strikes deep into the territory of the aggressor country of the russian federation with weapons transferred to Ukraine.
On September 6, the Pentagon announced another reason for the ban on the use of American weapons by Ukraine for long-range strikes deep into the territory of the aggressor country of russia.
The White House has said that ATACMS will not be able to hit russian warplanes because they are based outside the range of these missiles.
According to the media, Great Britain has been waiting for more than a month for the decision of the United States to give permission to Ukraine to hit russian territory with Storm Shadow missiles.
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