Will Ukraine’s Kursk incursion lead to West loosening weapon restrictions?
22 August 2024
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War in Ukraine
“The argument that they [Ukraine] were effectively making is, ‘look the front line is the same as the front line in eastern Ukraine, the same in the north and it’s the same in the south,’” said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a British defense think tank. “The fact that the front line has moved into Russia now is kind of a product of war…. that has actually allowed them to kind of crack open that discussion about [deep strikes] on Russian territory.”