The United States and Great Britain have apparently already decided to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range missiles, said Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. "Most likely, of course, all these decisions have already been made, this can be assumed with a high degree of probability," he said (quoted by RIA Novosti).

According to the Kremlin spokesman, the media is currently simply conducting an information campaign to formalize the decision that has already been made.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy would discuss the possibility of allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike Russian territory during their visit to Kiev. According to The Times, Blinken and Lammy will discuss the use of British long-range cruise missiles Storm Shadow with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

London delivered these missiles to Kyiv in the spring of 2023. In October 2023, the United States delivered ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, capable of hitting targets at a distance of 300 km. Later, Reuters, citing officials in Washington, reported that the United States could announce a decision to supply Ukraine with JASSM cruise missiles with a range of 300 to 800 km as early as the fall of 2024.

The US authorities are studying the issue of allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with Western long-range weapons, US President Joe Biden said in September.

In June, Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow could respond to the West's actions by supplying long-range weapons to regions of the world from where "strikes will be launched against sensitive facilities of those countries that do this against Russia." Later, the Russian president clarified that this could include the supply of Russian high-precision weapons to the DPRK.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in early September that Western countries' discussions of the possibility of allowing Ukraine to use Storm Shadow long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory were blackmail and playing with fire. “They are like little children playing with candles – this is a very dangerous thing for grown-up uncles and aunties who are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western country,” he said.