The State Department made it clear that it is conducting private negotiations with Kiev about strikes on Russia

Washington is conducting private diplomatic discussions with Kiev on the use of ATACMS missiles for strikes against Russia. This was made clear at a press conference, which was broadcast on YouTube, the official representative of the US Department of State Vedant Patel.

"I will not go into private diplomatic discussions with our Ukrainian partners," Patel said, quoted by <url>.

This is how he answered the question of whether the United States is ready to "untie the hands of Ukrainians" for long-range strikes against Russia.

Meanwhile, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, asked his French counterpart for permission to strike at the territory of Russia with weapons supplied by Paris.

"I had a productive conversation with Sebastian Lecorn, Minister of the Armed Forces of France… I insisted on the need to lift bans on striking military targets on enemy territory," Khmerov writes on his social network account, quoted by RIA Novosti.