Ukraine offensive doesn't alter Western anti-escalation stance, Poland says

18/8/2024 6:28

        Ukraine is reaping "huge political gains" from its military offensive into western Russia but the incursion is not altering the "anti- scalation approach" of the West, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said.
        
        Ukraine says it has seized more than 80 settlements over 1,150 square km (444 square miles) in Kursk since Aug. 6 in the biggest invasion of Russia since World War Two. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield developments.
        
        "This offensive does not change the anti-escalation attitude of the West," Siemoniak said, asked in an interview with Reuters late on Friday if Kyiv's military gains could change its allies' stance on the use of arms they supply for its war with Russia.
        
        Western governments providing military aid to Ukraine after Russia's invasion in February 2022 have so far refused to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons because of the perceived risk of escalation in the conflict.