“They have the right”: France gives the go-ahead for Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike Russian bases
France believes that Ukraine has the right to strike military bases in Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the allies should allow Ukrainians to neutralize Russian bases.
He said this on May 28 at a press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his trip to Germany.
“We must allow them to neutralize the military bases from which the missiles are launched,” the French president said.
He emphasized that attacks on Ukraine are carried out from the territory of Russia.
The German Chancellor, in turn, emphasized that Ukraine “has every opportunity under international law to do what it is doing,” and that Western countries that provide Ukraine with weapons “have discovered all the rules for their use, which are based on international law.”
So far, Scholz has repeatedly emphasized that Ukraine can only defend itself on its own territory with weapons supplied by Germany.
Also, recently, high-ranking officials of the Czech Republic and the Netherlands have spoken out in support of Ukraine’s use of Western weapons to strike at Russian territory.
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, commenting on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s statement on the subject, said that he considered such use “quite logical.”
Dutch Defense Minister Keesa Ollongren also supported the lifting of restrictions on Ukraine.
Earlier, Latvia, Sweden, Poland, and the United Kingdom supported the lifting of restrictions.
As a reminder, Belgium and Ukraine have signed an agreement prohibiting the use of Belgian military equipment outside Ukrainian territory.
