The US wants the Ukrainian military to abide by the international laws of war and abide by the Geneva Conventions.

The U.S. no longer insists that the U.S. armed forces do not strike Russian territory because they are less afraid of escalation from Moscow.

“We don’t tell Kyiv, ‘Don’t strike the Russians.’ We can’t tell them what to do. How they use their weapons is up to them, but when they use the weapons we’ve provided, that’s all we insist on. , so that the Ukrainian military adheres to the international laws of war and adheres to the Geneva Conventions,” said a representative of the US Department of Defense, as reported by The Times.

This is claimed to be the only limitation.

“It means that Russian families should not be targeted, and there should also be no attempts to eliminate specific individuals. As far as we know, Ukraine complies with these conditions,” the official said.

Modification of HIMARS before shipment to Ukraine: details

On December 5, The Wall Street Journal published a story that the US secretly modified the HIMARS missile launchers transferred to Ukraine so that they could not be used to launch long-range missiles by Russia, including ATACMS.

Mykhailo Podoliak, the adviser to the head of the President’s Office, stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not use any secret modifications of weapons, in particular HIMARS multiple-launch missile systems (MSMS), at the front.