Ukraine Can Finally Strike Back

Merz Ends the Era of Restraint. Russian Military Infrastructure Is Now on the Target List.

I needed this news. Badly.

It’s taken nearly three years to get here. Three years of watching Ukraine fight with one hand tied behind its back. So yes — this wasn’t just overdue. It was necessary.

Yesterday, the allies finally lifted the last of the long-range restrictions on Ukraine. The Biden-era chokehold — the one that blocked Ukraine from striking deep into Russian territory, from targeting the empire’s military backbone and production hubs — is now gone.

German Chancellor Merz made it official:

There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, not from the British, not from the French, not from us, not from the Americans either. This means that Ukraine can now also defend itself by attacking military positions in Russia, for example.

It couldn’t do that until some time ago, and with very few exceptions, it didn’t do that until some time ago. Now it can. In jargon, we call this long-range fire, i.e., equipping Ukraine with weapons that attack military targets in the rear.

And that is the decisive qualitative difference in Ukraine’s warfare. Russia attacks…