Admiral Rob Bauer, who serves as the principal advisor to NATO's secretary general, also said that nations supplying weapons to Kyiv have the right to limit their use.
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00:00The head of NATO's military committee has said that Ukraine has the legal right to strike
00:06targets deep inside Russia.
00:08Admiral Robb Bauer's position reflects what Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has
00:13been pressing for permission to do for weeks.
00:16So militarily there's a good reason to do that.
00:19To weaken the enemy, to weaken its logistic lines, fuel, ammunition that comes to the
00:26front.
00:27And that's what you want to stop, if at all possible.
00:30Those comments come as U.S. President Joe Biden is weighing whether to allow Ukraine
00:34to use American-provided long-range weapons to strike Russia.
00:38Biden met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday.
00:42Anonymous U.S. officials said they believed Starmer was seeking Biden's approval to allow
00:46Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles for expanded strikes in Russia.
00:51The U.S. currently does permit Ukraine to use some American-provided weapons in cross-border
00:55strikes to counter attacks by Russian forces, but it doesn't allow Kiev to fire long-range
01:01missiles such as ATAKMS deep into Russia.