MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. The UK is urging the removal of US restrictions on long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russia; US President Donald Trump may postpone launching a global trade war by a few months; and France along with 14 other Western countries plan to recognize Palestinian statehood by September. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
The United Kingdom may influence the United States to resume strikes deep within Russian territory using long-range weaponry, according to sources in the British Parliament cited by Izvestia. London also appears willing to purchase American weapons for Ukraine, despite growing public fatigue with the conflict. This renewed interest among UK politicians is further driven by Donald Trump’s increasingly hawkish rhetoric toward Russia, particularly his decision to shorten the Ukraine peace deal deadline from 50 days to 10, and to impose secondary sanctions on Moscow’s partners.
According to Izvestia, London has the potential to convince Washington to remove restrictions on the use of US weapons for deep strikes inside Russia. "Prime Minister Starmer could very well attempt to persuade President Trump to approve such deeper strikes into Russian territory, but Trump will likely realize that doing so could prolong the conflict, contradicting his publicly stated goals," Richard Balfe, a member of the House of Lords, said.
