The United States will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach into Russia, President Joe Biden said on Monday.
The comments followed reports that the Biden administration was preparing to send advanced long-range rocket systems to Kyiv.
Biden told reporters outside the White House on Monday that "we are not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia."
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia's Security Council, said that it was a "reasonable" decision.
He said that "otherwise, if our cities come under attack, the Russian armed forces would fulfill (their) threat and strike the centers where such criminal decisions are made."
Medvedev added that "some of them aren't in Kyiv." And he said that "there is no need for a further explanation."
