The Kremlin has criticised President Joe Biden for adding “fuel to the fire” after giving Ukraine permission to launch US missiles into Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “It is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to… continue adding fuel to the fire and provoking further escalation of tensions around this conflict.”

Russia‘s Foreign Ministry added that the action by Mr Biden‘s administration would fundamentally alter the nature of the war and trigger “an adequate and tangible” response.

The UK has refused to reveal if it plans to follow suit, for example extending the use of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles by Ukraine to hit targets inside Russia.

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Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey told the House of Commons commenting would “compromise operations and security”, adding that he will speak with the US and Ukrainian defence secretaries on Monday evening.

At the G20 Summit in Brazil, Sir Keir Starmer gave a similar response: “I’m not going to get into operational details because the only winner, if we were to do that, is [Vladimir] Putin, and I’m not prepared to do that.”

For over a year Ukraine has been calling on America changes its policy on the use of long-range missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given a muted response to Mr Biden’s decision to expand the use of the American-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).

“Strikes are not made with words… the missiles will speak for themselves,” he said.

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The US has eased restrictions on the use of ATACMS, which has a range of up to 190 miles, after Russia began deploying North Korean ground troops to supplement its own forces in the conflict.

Donald Trump Jr, the son of president-elect Donald Trump, suggested in a post on X that Mr Biden was risking a third world war “before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives”.

Hungary: Policy is ‘astonishingly dangerous’

There has been a strong, but mixed, reaction across Europe to America’s change of policy.

Hungary’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, said the decision was “astonishingly dangerous” – although the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has a close and often sympathetic relationship with Moscow.

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Slovakia’s leader Robert Fico, who has also fostered a stronger relationship with his Russian counterpart, said it was an “unprecedented escalation of tensions” and “a decision that thwarts hopes for the start of any peace talks”.

But other countries have been more positive.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said: “This decision was very necessary… Russia sees that Ukraine enjoys strong support and that the West’s position is unyielding and determined.”

Meanwhile, Estonia’s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna was equally positive. He said easing restrictions on Ukraine was “a good thing”, adding: “We have been saying that from the beginning – that no restrictions must be put on the military support [for Ukraine].”

Missiles are ‘not a game changer’

Former British ambassador to Russia Sir Toby Brenton has told Sky News: “Nobody is really expecting this to be a game changer.

“They’re expecting it to make life more difficult for the Russians, slow the Russian advance down, but… from all the stories I’m hearing, there are not actually that many of these missiles available to be used.”

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On Monday, a Russian ballistic missile with cluster munitions killed 11 people in a residential area of Sumy in northern Ukraine.

Another missile barrage sparked apartment fires in the southern port of Odesa, killing at least 10 people, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said.

Meanwhile, Tuesday marks 1,000 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion in 2022.

Barely anyone speaks – there is virtual silence apart from the sounds of passing vehicles and the wind whipping through flags and photographs commemorating the dead in a war that started 1,000 days ago when Russia invaded.

What is really striking is the sheer number of people who have died, and this memorial in Kyiv’s Maidan Square represents just some of those who gave their lives defending their country.

Soldiers in camouflage fatigues pause to pay their respects to comrades, civilians stop and stare, heads often bowed.

At the same time, on mobile phones, news alerts announce another missile strike on Ukraine. This time in the port city of Odessa.

More dead, more injured, it never stops here.

As this war grinds on, with Russia making significant gains in the east, it says something about the Ukrainian people’s resolve to keep going.

For months the Ukrainian government has been pleading with the United States and its western partners for permission to use long range weapons to attack deep inside Russia.

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These weapons would allow Ukraine to target airfields and bases where drones and missiles are launched against Ukraine, and to attack supply routes and military camps. In effect – to take the fight to Russia.

Time and again civilians and soldiers alike tell me the West and the United States are scared of annoying or provoking Russia. Wrongly or rightly, most believe the West is happy for Ukraine to hold the line but not beat Russia.

News that President Biden, in the twilight of his time in office, has changed his position allowing American missiles to be fired into Russia, has been greeted with euphoria.

Although it’s tempered by his decision to allow them to be used only in the Kursk region of Russia, where North Korean troops are augmenting the Russian military.

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I met Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko in the capital, she heard the news as she arrived back in Ukraine from a trip abroad.

She says the decision has “lifted spirits here” and calls the move “extremely significant” but says it needs to go further.

“As members of parliament we have been echoing the president in every single meeting we have abroad, asking for the permission to strike inside Russia’s territory, what this means is permission to liquidate 16 airbases from which Russia on a daily and nightly bases sends airplanes carrying missiles that are hitting Ukrainian homes, Ukrainian infrastructure, and basically making civilian life impossible in the country,” she told me.

She continued: “Having permission to strike inside of all of Russia would really change things round for the people of Ukraine first and foremost, but also on the battlefield.”

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She told me that despite the war dragging on, the Ukrainian people remain resolute and united.

“The resilience is still there, for us this resilience equals survival, if Ukraine stops fighting there will be no Ukraine, there will be no us as Ukrainians, there will be no housing, we would not be allowed to live under the Ukrainian flag, so the only option here is to make sure that Russia stops fighting and that Russia can never fight again.”

Over the past almost two weeks I have driven from the west to the east of this huge country.

It strikes me that you can barely pass a town or a village cemetery without the blue and gold colours of the Ukrainian flag punctuating the grey skies – marking the graves of the war dead.

A thousand days since the Russian invasion began, soldiers and civilians alike are still dying, but Ukraine is still fighting.

A thousand days ago, few thought that was likely.

Gisele Pelicot’s sons have faced their “devil” father in court, with one saying he wanted to vomit when his mother revealed how he had let strangers rape her for years.

Ms Pelicot, 72, was allegedly sedated and repeatedly raped by Dominique Pelicot and at least 50 other men while she was unconscious.

She has waived her right to anonymity and insisted the trial in southern France should be public to shame her attackers.

Her eldest son, 50-year-old David Pelicot, testified on Monday and described how revolted he was when he discovered what had been going on.

“My mother told me that this man in court before us delivered her strangers to rape her. When I was told, I wanted to vomit,” he said.

“We wanted to make this man disappear from the house. Within two days there were no more photos, no more clothes or any trace of him.”

He added: “It feels like my childhood has been erased. Growing up, when my parents organised surprise parties for us, my friends would tell me how lucky I was to have a father like I did.

“Now none of my friends can understand how he has done this.”

David Pelicot also accused his father of taking nude photos of his own wife while she was pregnant, and said he believed his sister’s claims he had drugged her to take photos of her in her underwear.

Dominique Pelicot has previously confessed to all the charges, bluntly telling the court: “I am a rapist just like all the others in this room.”

However, many of his co-defendants have said they believed Ms Pelicot was pretending to be asleep as part of a role-play, or that they were forced by her now ex-husband.

Gisele Pelicot’s younger son, 38-year-old Florian Pelicot, also testified on Monday and in tears told his dad “four years ago I lost my father” and “my children have lost their grandfather”.

“You called my mum a saint, but you in fact are the Devil,” he added.

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Florian Pelicot also described one occasion when he said he phoned the house and his father claimed his mother wasn’t available as she had “gone out to buy bread”.

“I asked him to get her to call me back. I didn’t hear from her for another two days,” he said.

Dominique Pelicot, 71, allegedly put sedatives in his wife’s food to make her unconscious before the attackers came to rape her.

He recorded thousands of pictures and videos of the abuse, some of which have been played in court.

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Pelicot is said to have cleaned his wife’s body after the attacks and given the men orders so she would not wake, including warming their hands, not wearing aftershave or smelling of cigarette smoke.

Details revealed in the ongoing trial in Avignon have shocked France but the courage of Gisele Pelicot has been widely praised.

The trial continues.