The first pro-Ukraine measure taken by Trump after changing its position towards Putin. It's about Russia targets
The United States will provide Ukraine with information on remote energy infrastructure targets in Russia, two officials for Reuters said on Wednesday, in the context of analyzing Kiev rockets that could be used in such attacks.
The United States also asks NATO allies to provide similar support, American officials said, confirming information on this topic published by Wall Street Journal.
The decision represents the first policy change on Ukraine that President Donald Trump has approved since his rhetoric has tightened in recent weeks, trying to end the war.
Washington has long shared information with Kiev, but Wall Street Journal has written that it will now be easier for Ukraine to hit Russian infrastructure, such as refineries, pipes and power plants, in order to deprive the Kremlin of Income and Petroleum.
This measure comes in the conditions in which Trump has pressed European countries to cease the purchase of Russian oil in exchange for his agreement to impose hard sanctions to Moscow, in an attempt to leave Russia without money to finance his invasion in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump offered details about one of his conversations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, during which he suggested that Russia is a “paper tiger”.
What rockets could hit Ukraine
The measure also comes in the context in which the United States also takes into account a request for Kiev to receive Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of 2,500 km – enough to hit Moscow and most of the European Russia if launched from Ukraine.
Ukraine has also developed its own long -range rocket, called Flamingo, but it is not known as it has, because it is in the incipient production phase.
According to some American officials quoted by the American newspaper, the approval for additional information came shortly before Trump posted on social media last week a message that suggested that Ukraine could regain all the territories occupied by Russia, in a surprising rhetorical change in favor of Kiev.
“After seeing the economic problems that (the war) causes Russia, I believe that Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is able to fight and regain the whole of Ukraine in its original form,” Trump wrote on Social Truth, shortly after meeting with the Ukrainian president.
It is for the first time that the United States will provide Ukraine assistance for long distance strokes in Russian territory on energy targets, WSJ sources said.
“President Trump is a special politician. He likes fast solutions, and this is a situation in which fast solutions do not work,” Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, on Wednesday, during a press conference organized on the start of Russia's presidency at the UN Security Council in October.
Nenbenzia also quoted the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said that if the US will decide to provide Ukraine Tomahawk, “this will not change the situation on the battlefield.”
Energy money, essential for Russian war effort
Energy revenues remain the most important source of Kremlin money to finance the war effort, which is why oil and gas exports are an essential target of Western sanctions.
Trump has also taken measures to impose an additional fee on imports from India, in order to press New Delhi authorities to stop Russian crude oil acquisitions, and lobby beside countries such as Turkey to stop Moscow oil purchases.
On Wednesday morning, the finance ministers of the countries in the seven group have said that they will take common measures to increase the pressure on Russia will be targeted by those who continue to increase their Russian oil purchases and those who facilitate the circumstances of the sanctions.
Also, intense ukraine drone attacks on refineries and other enemy energy targets have pushed Russia in an unprecedented crisis, with chain effects, and the figures are worrying to the Kremlin.
