Author: Koen Verhelst

Striking targets far inside Russia with U.S. and other Western weapons would not make a big difference for Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s aggression, American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Friday. “There’s no one capability that will, in and of itself, be decisive in this campaign,” Austin told reporters at Germany’s Ramstein Air Base, where he met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and fellow allies in the so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group. “We had this discussion about tanks; we had this discussion about other capabilities,” Austin said. “There are a lot of targets in Russia — a…