KYIV — Ukraine has the “right” to use British-supplied weapons to strike Russia inside its own territory, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on a trip to Kyiv.
In an interview with Reuters, Cameron said it was up to Ukraine to decide how U.K. weapons are used.
Asked if that included targets inside Russia, he said: “Ukraine has that right. Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it’s defending itself.”
Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s Western partners have set one condition for Kyiv to keep military aid coming – don’t strike in Russia. But countries including Finland and Latvia have since said they support Ukraine’s right to use weapons they have provided to defend itself, including strikes in Russia.
Cameron, a former British prime minister who returned to frontline politics late last year, was speaking on his second trip to Kyiv since taking on the job.
It comes a week after the U.K. announced its largest-ever military aid package to Ukraine. In a further show of support, Cameron pledged £3 billion of annual military help to Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Cameron for the support in his meeting with the U.K. diplomat.
But he stressed the importance of getting weapons from the new aid package into Ukraine as soon as possible. “First of all, armored vehicles, ammunition, and missiles of various types,” Zelenskyy said.
<img src="https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-loaded/v1/AXDo7-tiasQk6Qq2rHg4LHn9ye8UNv30" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Trump asks Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man to U.S." title="Trump asks Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man to U.S."> <img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/supremecourt-6-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Trump asks Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man to U.S." title="Trump asks Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man to U.S." style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/supremecourt-6-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/supremecourt-6-570x570.jpg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/supremecourt-6-500x500.jpg 500w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/supremecourt-6-1000x1000.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&linkname=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&linkname=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." title="LinkedIn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&linkname=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&linkname=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_printfriendly" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/printfriendly?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&linkname=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." title="PrintFriendly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_no_icon addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F04%2Ftrump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s%2F&title=Trump%20asks%20Supreme%20Court%20to%20block%20order%20to%20return%20wrongly%20deported%20man%20to%20U.S." data-a2a-url="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s/" data-a2a-title="Trump asks Supreme Court to block order to return wrongly deported man to U.S.">Share</a></p><p>The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Monday morning, asking the justices to block an order by a federal judge in Maryland that instructed the federal government to return a Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador, where he is being held in a maximum-security mega-prison, to the United States by Monday evening.</p>
<p>Shortly after the government came to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit denied the Department of Justice’s request to block the order. “The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process,” the unanimous 4th Circuit wrote.</p>
<p>John Sauer, who was confirmed as the U.S. solicitor general last week, told the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had “ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight.” Sauer also asked the court to grant an administrative stay, which would freeze Xinis’s order long enough to give the justices time to consider his request.<span id="more-319509"></span></p>
<p>Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was born in El Salvador and came to this country as an undocumented immigrant. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal, which means that he is protected against being removed to El Salvador because of the likelihood that he would be harmed if returned there. He has never been charged with or convicted of a crime.</p>
<p>On March 12, Abrego Garcia was taken into ICE custody and eventually moved to Texas and, from there, to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center. The detainees who arrived there from the U.S. were stripped, shackled, and had their heads shaved. No one has heard from Abrego Garcia since he arrived in El Salvador.</p>
<p>Lawyers representing Abrego Garcia went to federal court in Maryland, where Abrego Garcia lived with his wife and three children, seeking his return to the United States. The federal government acknowledged that Abrego Garcia should not have been taken to El Salvador, but it countered that Xinis lacked the power to consider Abrego Garcia’s case because (among other things) he was now in El Salvador and because the U.S government lacks any ability to get him back.</p>
<p>In a brief ruling on Friday, followed by a longer written decision on Sunday, Xinis instructed the federal government to return Abrego Garcia by 11:59 p.m. on Monday. The government, she stressed, “had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador—let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere.”</p>
<p>Xinis declined to put her ruling on hold to give the government time to appeal, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (in an order that appeared on the docket after the Trump administration submitted its filing to the Supreme Corut) did the same.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi%20Noem%20application.pdf">his 25-page filing</a>, Sauer contended that “[e]ven amidst a deluge of unlawful injunctions” – apparently referring to other court orders blocking Trump administration policies – “this order is remarkable” because even Abrego Garcia had not asked the federal courts “to force the United States to persuade El Salvador to release” him “on a judicially mandated clock.” The federal government, Sauer maintained, “cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations.”</p>
<p>Sauer also repeated the government’s contention that Abrego Garcia was a member of the international criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization. Abrego Garcia disputes this, and in her written order Xinis noted that “the ‘evidence’ against Abrego Garcia consisted of nothing more than his Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie, and a vague, uncorroborated allegation from a confidential informant claiming he belonged to MS-13’s ‘Western’ clique in New York—a place he has never lived.”</p>
<p>Sauer conceded that Abrego Garcia’s “removal to El Salvador was an administrative error.” But that, he continued, does not give district courts the authority to “seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate diplomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organization into America tonight.”</p>
<p><em>This article was <a href="https://amylhowe.com/2025/04/07/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-to-return-wrongly-deported-man-to-u-s/">originally published at Howe on the Court</a>. </em></p>
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