{"id":13733,"date":"2024-05-23T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:40:02","slug":"a-ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-in-his-sights-but-couldnt-attack-he-says-a-us-rule-is-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13733","title":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian commander had Russian troops in his sights but couldn&#8217;t attack. He says a US rule is to blame."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A Ukrainian commander operating near the Russian border described how his unit watched as Russia amassed a huge force but had to wait for the troops to cross the border to hit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There were a lot of Russians gathering, and we could have destroyed them on the way in, but we don&#8217;t have many ATACMS, and we have a ban on using them over there,&#8221; he told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/spetsnaz-came-via-the-marshes-and-trees-i-had-to-call-in-artillery-vdjn8sqwp\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Times of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drago, a special forces commander with Ukraine&#8217;s Kraken detachment, was redeployed, along with his unit and other special forces troops, in April from the eastern Donbas region to Kharkiv to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s forces there, per the Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But instead of hitting the Russians, he and his unit were forced to watch as the troops gathered on their side of the border, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We had to wait for them to cross,&#8221; he said, referring to a US policy that bans Ukrainian forces from using US-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-104548451.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-104548451.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Ukrainian commander operating near the Russian border described how his unit watched as Russia amassed a huge force but had to wait for the troops to cross the border to hit them.<br \/>\n&#8220;There were a lot of Russians gathering, and we could have destroyed them on the way in, but we don&#8217;t have many ATACMS, and we have a ban on using them over there,&#8221; he told The Times of London.<\/p>\n<p>Drago, a special forces commander with Ukraine&#8217;s Kraken detachment, was redeployed, along with his unit and other special forces troops, in April from the eastern Donbas region to Kharkiv to strengthen Ukraine&#8217;s forces there, per the Times.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of hitting the Russians, he and his unit were forced to watch as the troops gathered on their side of the border, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to wait for them to cross,&#8221; he said, referring to a US policy that bans Ukrainian forces from using US-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-104548451.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1527,552,272,355,314,1545,259,315,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-13733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aid","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}