The West is finally giving Ukraine a shot at ‘cutting the head off the snake’ rather than making it wait for Russia to strike

• Ukraine’s allies have given it new permissions to hit military targets in Russia.
• The shift threatens Russia’s ability to launch strikes and stage attacks with impunity from within its borders.
• Experts say Ukraine can now begin to fight properly.

With new permissions giving Ukraine more ways to use its weaponry, including striking into Russia, the West is finally giving it a chance to fight back against Russia properly, experts say.

From the start of started firing in the Kharkiv region as soon as Ukraine got the new permission and in the first days “managed to destroy whole columns of troops along the border waiting for the order to enter Ukraine.”

And two Ukrainian officials also told The Washington Post that some Russian attacks had been reduced in that region since the new permissions came in. The AP reported that Ukraine’s new operational permissions had “greatly slowed Russia’s momentum” in Kharkiv.