KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy elevated strain on the US to let Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory after his representatives met senior US officers in Washington on Saturday (Aug 31).
Washington has supplied Ukraine with greater than US$50 billion value of military aid since 2022, however has restricted using its weapons to Ukrainian soil and defensive crossborder operations.
“Clearing the Ukrainian sky of Russian guided aerial bombs is a robust step to drive Russia to hunt an finish to the struggle and a simply peace,” Zelenskyy stated in his nightly video handle.
Interesting to the US, Britain, France and Germany, he stated, “We want the capabilities to really and absolutely defend Ukraine and Ukrainians.
“We want each the permissions for long-range capabilities and your long-range shells and missiles.”
With out offering specifics, he stated his representatives had “supplied all the required particulars” to Ukraine’s companions.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, in Washington with a delegation on Friday and Saturday to fulfill US officers and consultants, stated in an interview broadcast by CNN that Kyiv was displaying Russian airfields used to hit Ukrainian cities have been inside vary of deep strikes.
“Now we have defined what sort of capabilities we have to defend the residents towards the Russian terror that Russians are inflicting us, so I hope we have been heard,” Umerov stated within the interview late on Friday.
