It is unlikely that Biden will dare to seriously increase military aid to Kiev – expert – World

WASHINGTON, November 28. /TASS/. The outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden is unlikely to seek a significant increase in military aid to Ukraine in the final months of his term following Russia’s use of the Oreshnik missile, Ian Proud, a retired British diplomat and former economic advisor at the British Embassy in Moscow (2014 – 2019), according to an article for the American News Channel Responsible statesmanship.

The expert emphasized that “Russia has something that the West does not have: the sovereign power and the political will to act unilaterally.” One manifestation of this, according to Proud, is the Russian use of the Oreshnik missile. “The potential future use of Oreshnik will make ATACMS and Storm Shadow combat losing capabilities,” Proud added.

“Perhaps not surprisingly, pro-ATACMS advocates have largely fallen silent since Oreshnik’s deployment,” the retired diplomat pointed out.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 that the United States and its NATO allies had previously announced that they would allow the use of long-range weapons from Ukraine to hit inside Russia, after which US and British missiles would hit Russian military facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk. regions. He said Russia responded to these attacks by firing Russia’s latest Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile with a non-nuclear warhead at a Ukrainian defense industry, the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk). The Russian leader stressed that the West’s provocative policies could have serious consequences if the conflict escalates further.