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Ukrainian MP: use of longer range missiles to strike inside Russia not a 'silver bullet' to guarantee victory

 


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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/nov/18/ukraine-war-us-missile-atacms-joe-biden-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin-latest-news

 

Ukrainian MP: use of longer range missiles to strike inside Russia not a 'silver bullet' to guarantee victory

A Ukrainian MP has said that the use of longer range missiles against Russia is not a “silver bullet” that will guarantee victory for Ukraine, and called for a change of strategy from western leaders.

 

Mariia Ionova, who sits on the foreign affairs committee in the Ukrainian parliament, told listeners of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme:

 

Missiles are not the silver bullet against our common enemies, and that is why we are asking all our friends that we need a change in strategy, because our enemies are united and we should stand together as well.

 

When we are talking about this permission [for longer range missile fire], yes, we appreciate it, but that [alone] will not bring a victory.

 

[We need] an air shield over Ukraine, more training, more western military instructors in Ukraine, more sanctions, and also more secondary sanctions.

 

And I think also we should be, and our friends’ leaders should be, more creative, more brave.

 

Do not exclude anything. Do not postpone. We understand the procedures in democratic societies, but for us, time is human lives.

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