Vladimir Putin has warned that allowing U.S. weapons to strike inside Russia would make America a direct party to the conflict.

The US has for the first time allowed Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia. The outgoing Biden administration has told Kyiv it can use US-made ATACMS missiles for limited strikes inside Russia,

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against a much larger enemy.