Ukraine complains US is limiting strikes in Russia

The US gave Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia with US-made missiles at the beginning of this month after the Kremlin launched an attack across the border towards Kharkiv.

Washington had been reluctant to allow US missiles to strike Russia because it was worried about escalating the war.

The row over US rules for Ukrainian missile strikes reignited as Russian forces claimed to have used a FAB-3000 M-54 glide bomb, twice the size of its standard FAB-1500 bomb, for the first time in Ukraine.

A video circulating on Telegram showed massive damage to the village of Lyptsi, in the Kharkiv region, after an alleged FAB-3000 glide bomb strike, even though commentary admitted that it had missed its target.

The Institute for the Study of War, a US-based think tank, described the attack as a “significant development” that increased the Kremlin’s firepower.

“The strike was not particularly accurate, but the destruction radius of the FAB-3000 will compensate for its lack of accuracy,” it said.