Biden speeds up US arms deliveries to Ukraine ahead of Trump’s inauguration

Biden speeds up US arms deliveries to Ukraine ahead of Trump’s inauguration

A free rein, or something close. For more than two and a half years of war, Joe Biden imposed serious restrictions on the use of the weapons sent to Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion. The argument was the fear of provoking a disproportionate Russian response. Two months before leaving the White House ahead of the arrival of Donald Trump, who is expected to change the Biden administration’s policy, the outgoing U.S. president is hastily lifting these restrictions: first he approved the use of long-range missiles to hit targets in Russian territory; on Wednesday, the use of anti-personnel mines was approved. The advantages, Washington calculates, outweigh the perceived risks at this point.

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