Blinken: US Does Not Encourage Kiev to Attack Russia, But Will Continue Military Aid – Al-Manar TV Lebanon

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Washington does not encourage Kiev troops to strike the territory of Russia, but will continue to provide Ukraine with the military assistance it needs to defend itself.

Washington “neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” the top US diplomat told reporters after the US-Australian negotiations in Washington on Tuesday.

However, he added that the United States and its allies were determined to provide the Kiev government with “the equipment that they need to defend themselves, to defend their territory, to defend their freedom.”.

Earlier on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon secretly modified advanced rocket systems supplied to Ukraine in order to allegedly prevent them from firing long-range missiles into the territory of Russia.