Russia is bristling with anger over a Biden administration decision to allow Ukraine to use longer-range weapons than previously approved to strike Russian territory.
“This decision is reckless, dangerous, aimed at a qualitative change, a qualitative increase in the level of involvement of the United States in this conflict,” Dmitry Peskov, a representative of the Kremlin, said, according to Reuters.
“It is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps to continue adding fuel to the fire and continue to provoke tension around this conflict,” he said, according to NBC.
“If such a decision was really formulated and communicated to the Kyiv regime, then, of course, this is a qualitatively new round of tension and a qualitatively new situation from the point of view of the US involvement in this conflict,” he said.
A report in The New York Times said that Russia’s use of North Korean troops was a factor in the decision.
The Times reported that about 10,000 North Korean soldiers are amassed to attack the Kursk region of Russia, which Ukraine has occupied since the summer.
The ATACMS system, an abbreviation for Army Tactical Missile System has a range of about 190 miles,