NEW YORK, November 21. /TASS/. Ukraine may be ruined because of Vladimir Zelensky’s policies, American political commentator Jackson Hinkle said.

"Ukraine should be forever grateful that President Putin is calm, rational and kind - because Zelensky is practically begging for his country to be flattened," he wrote on the X social media platform.

The Times reported earlier, citing Downing Street sources, that the US administration had authorized the use of British-made Storm Shadow long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia.

The New York Times reported on November 17, citing sources, that Biden had authorized the use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles to launch attacks inside Russia from Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US administration has not made any official statements to either confirm or deny these reports. Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, in turn, said that some European Union countries had also allowed Ukraine to use their weapons for strikes deep inside Russia. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on November 19 that Moscow’s revised nuclear doctrine provided for a nuclear response to the use of Western non-nuclear missiles against Russia. Earlier, Peskov noted that Western countries’ decision indicated "a qualitatively new phase" of tensions.