Our Prime Minister recently stated that “Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia’s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, and mostly to kill innocent civilians”.
Some of our allies seem to be a little more cautious about the use of long-range weapons to target Russian targets within Russia, outside of the Kherson region. It seems that perhaps this is changing, but the concern seems to be Putin's continued threats that this is going to escalate the conflict between Russia and NATO.
What is our assessment of the risk of providing long-range weaponry and allowing Ukrainians to use it?