US official says policy change relates to ‘counter-fire purposes’ and prohibits long-range attacks inside of Russia
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    The change will also allow the Ukrainian army to target concentrations of Russian forces massing on the border in Russia’s Belgorod region.

    Biden’s decision followed calls from US allies in Europe, including the UK, Germany and France, and the Nato secretary general, for Ukraine to be able to use western-provided weapons against military targets in Russia.

    “I think the immediate change is that Ukraine will be able to use Himars [high mobility artillery rocket systems], which means they can strike targets more effectively at greater depths,” said Rob Lee, a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia program.

    Ukraine has been suffering higher numbers of losses to its artillery along the front lines in Kharkiv in recent weeks, said Lee, probably because they had to operate closer to the frontlines and Russia had been successfully targeting them with Lancet loitering munitions.

    Early on Friday, Russian forces shelled a five-storey apartment building in Kharkiv, starting a fire and wounding eight people, according to local officials who warned that residents could be trapped under rubble.

    People could be under the rubble,” the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said of the attack, which occurred at about midnight local time.

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