The West’s uncertainty about strikes with long-range weapons deep into Russian territory is due to the Ukrainian army’s mistakes on the battlefield, the French newspaper Le Monde reported, citing sources.
United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Vladimir Zelenskyy at a meeting in Kiev on 11 September made no decisions on the use of American weapons for strikes on the territory of Russia.
Le Monde named the attempted invasion of the Kursk Region by Ukrainian units as mistakes. The newspaper pointed out that the attack on the Russian region ‘took Ukraine’s Western partners “by surprise,” who “now demand Kiev clarify its strategy” on the battlefield. The West is worried that the conflict ‘will spill over beyond Ukraine, particularly into Poland and Latvia,’ the publication said.
Olivier Schmitt, a professor at the Centre for the Study of Military Conflict at the University of Southern Denmark, told Le Monde that a decision on Kiev’s strikes should not be expected in the near future. Schmitt is convinced that ‘the election campaign in the United States, the protracted political crisis in France and the political crisis in Germany, where the Chancellor (Olaf Scholz – ed.) does not want to hear about a possible escalation against Russia, mean that there should be no immediate decisions’.
We will remind, earlier journalist Christoph Wanner in a report for the German TV channel Welt said that by attacking the Kursk region the Ukrainian military is trying to hide the most difficult situation in Donbass. In his opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to achieve results there because they do not have enough forces to do so.
