Great Britain says Ukraine has the right to attack targets inside Russia using British weapons.
The announcement came from Armed Forces Minister James Heappey on Tuesday, The Times in London reported.
Heappey said that Ukraine was targeting "completely legitimate" military targets inside Russia and that Western weapons supplied to the country could be used for that purpose.
"I think it is certainly the case that things that the international community are now providing to Ukraine have the range to be used over the borders," he told Times Radio. "But that's not necessarily a problem.
"Ukraine is targeting what I would say are completely legitimate military targets to disrupt Russian logistics supplies. And you know, the fact is that they make those choices just as the Russians make the choices to indiscriminately bomb Ukrainian towns and cities."
His comments came as fire ripped through oil depots in the Russian city of Bryansk on Monday. The city is less than 100 miles from the Ukrainian border, according to The New York, Times. The cause of the fires remains under investigation, according to Russian officials. However, it came on the same day that Russian military forces attacked critical infrastructure across Ukraine, the newspaper pointed out.
Meanwhile, The Associated Press reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his nation has "a feeling that the West wants Ukraine to continue to fight and, as it seems to them, wear out, exhaust the Russian army and the Russian military industrial war complex. This is an illusion."
He said weapons supplied by Western countries "will be a legitimate targets," adding that Russian forces had already targeted weapons warehouses in western Ukraine, according to the wire service.
Addressing the possibility of a nuclear confrontation, Lavrov said: "I would not want to see these risks artificially inflated now, when the risks are rather significant."
"The danger is serious," he said. "It is real. It should not be underestimated."
Meanwhile Heappey pushed back at Lavrov, saying his comments were just "noise," according to the Daily Mail.
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