US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will give Ukraine permission to strike Russia with American long-range ATACMS missiles, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives Michael McCaul said in an interview with Axios journalist Juliegrace Brufke.
"I talked to Blinken two days ago, and he is traveling with his counterpart from the UK to Kyiv to basically tell them that they will allow them [to hit Russia with ATACMS]," the congressman said in a conversation with Brufke.
Earlier, Blinken said that US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer would discuss permission for Ukraine to launch long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia.
Russian State Duma deputy Dmitry Novikov earlier suggested that Kyiv could receive the permission in the foreseeable future.
"The talking about strikes deep into Russia has become more frequent because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's sponsors feel that within the framework of the previous concept of certain rules, Ukraine is unable to win the confrontation. The West can not afford to lose, they can not give Zelensky an opportunity to lose," Novikov told lenta.ru news website.