NATO official: Ukraine has legal right to strike deep into Russia

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Admiral Rob Bauer, who serves as the principal advisor to NATO's secretary general, also said that nations supplying weapons to Kyiv have the right to limit their use.

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00:00The head of NATO's military committee has said that Ukraine has the legal right to strike

00:06targets deep inside Russia.

00:08Admiral Robb Bauer's position reflects what Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has

00:13been pressing for permission to do for weeks.

00:16So militarily there's a good reason to do that.

00:19To weaken the enemy, to weaken its logistic lines, fuel, ammunition that comes to the

00:26front.

00:27And that's what you want to stop, if at all possible.

00:30Those comments come as U.S. President Joe Biden is weighing whether to allow Ukraine

00:34to use American-provided long-range weapons to strike Russia.

00:38Biden met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday.

00:42Anonymous U.S. officials said they believed Starmer was seeking Biden's approval to allow

00:46Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles for expanded strikes in Russia.

00:51The U.S. currently does permit Ukraine to use some American-provided weapons in cross-border

00:55strikes to counter attacks by Russian forces, but it doesn't allow Kiev to fire long-range

01:01missiles such as ATAKMS deep into Russia.

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