Foreign ministry says if Ukraine fires western-supplied missiles, it would ‘represent a radical change in the conflict’

The foreign minister of the Netherlands, Caspar Veldkamp, has described the decision by the Joe Biden administration that US supplied weapons can be used to strike inside Russia as an “adequate response” to the deployment of North Korean troops by Russia.

The US president will allow Ukraine to use US-made Atacms rockets, which have a range of 190 miles (300km) inside Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have staged an incursion.