INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow on Thursday attacked "hothead" United States lawmakers after mounting calls, including from House Speaker Mike Johnson, for Ukraine
to be allowed to fire donated American weaponry into Russia.Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the United States House of Representatives,
on Wednesday told journalists that it was "not a good policy" that United States weapons donated to Ukraine should not be used on Russian
territory."We know that among United States Senators and Congressmen there are very many hotheads who consider it their duty to keep
pouring oil on the fire," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded in a video posted by Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin.Peskov condemned
this as "an absolutely irresponsible position" that could be "dangerous in its consequences."He reiterated Moscow's position that
international weapon supplies will not alter the result of the conflict, vowing that Russia will continue fighting "until the moment when it
has reached all its set aims.""I think we need to allow Ukraine to prosecute the war in the way they see fit," Johnson told journalists in
Washington after calls to end United States President Joe Biden's policy that American weapons should not be fired into Russia."They need
And I think us trying to micromanage the effort there is not a good policy for us."Ukraine regularly launches strikes across the border into
Russia, particularly into the Belgorod region, a tactic it views as fair retaliation for attacks on its soil.Russian President Vladimir
Putin said his army launched an offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region this month to create a buffer zone that would protect his
country's border villages from Ukrainian attacks.United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken while visiting Kyiv last week said: "We
have not encouraged or enabled strikes outside of Ukraine, but ultimately Ukraine has to make decisions for itself about how it's going to
conduct this war."British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said during a visit to Ukraine this month that Kyiv "absolutely has the right to
