US President Joe Biden is considering giving Ukraine permission to strike with American short-range weapons on Russian territory. The Washington Post columnist David Ignatius writes about it.

According to him, this is seen as a retaliatory measure against the advance of the Russian army at the front.

The second countermeasure is to punish China for supplying key technologies to Moscow.

“These steps would represent a significant escalation of Biden's carefully calibrated policy. The fact that such steps are now being considered shows the administration's growing concern about Ukraine's vulnerability on the battlefield,” Ignatius writes.

The journalist confirms that after the trip to Kyiv, Blinken began lobbying for the lifting of the ban on strikes on Russia with artillery and short-range missiles. Other NATO countries are also putting pressure on Biden to loosen controls.

Ignatius believes that such a permission would strengthen Ukraine's future negotiating position.