The French Parliament called for Ukraine to be allowed to hit with French weapons on the Russian Federation

20 May, 2024 SCALP EG missile under the wing of the Ukrainian Su-24M bomber. August 2023. Frame from the Ihor Smilyanskyi`s video

The French parliament calls for lifting restrictions on Ukraine's strikes on the territory of Russia with weapons handed over by France. It is reported by Le Figaro. The Chairman of the French National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, made such a call to the authorities of the country.

The politician wrote a letter to the French leadership, in which he called for abandoning "restraint and making a decision" following the example of the UK, which allowed Ukrainian troops to strike with its weapons at the Russian territory. "It seems the time has come... The right to self-defense excludes the right to the inviolability of the aggressor's territory," he stressed, and added that the change of doctrine will be absolutely legal, since it will end the asymmetry between the aggressor and the victim.

SCALP EG missile under the wing of the Ukrainian Su-24M bomber.

2023. Photo credits: Ukrainian Air Force

At the same time, Bourlanges stressed that neither France nor other Western partners of Ukraine were willing to go to war with the Russian Federation. "Therefore, this is not about their participation in the theater of war, but about lifting the unjustified taboo," he wrote in his letter.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ukraine has been limited in the use of weapons received from Western countries to strike at Russian territory. Usually in the West, this restriction was explained by the fact that they provide weapons to Ukraine in order to defend themselves from Russian invasion, and not to attack it. As previously reported, earlier the Pentagon also said that they considered the weapons that the United States provided to Ukraine as military assistance should've been used within Ukrainian territory.

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Photo credits: Strategic Communications Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Wall Street Journal has learned that Ukraine has asked the United States to provide the intelligence to determine targets in Russia at which Kyiv could strike with its own weapons.

And also asked to remove restrictions on the use of American weapons at military facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation.

At a briefing on May 17, John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Advisor, said that at that moment Washington did not support assisting Kyiv in choosing targets or using American weapons to strike at the Russian territory.