President Zelensky urges Western allies to allow him to use the weapons they provided to strike deeper inside Russia
FILE -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky y speaks during a joint press conference with Netherlands' Prime Minister Dick Schoof in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine , Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Friday with top United States military leaders and more than 50 partner nations in Germany to press for more weapons support as Washington announced it would provide another $250-million in security assistance to Kyiv.
“We need to have this long-range capability, not only on the divided territory of Ukraine, but also on the Russian territory, so that Russia is motivated to seek peace,” Zelensky told the members. “We need to make Russian cities and even Russian soldiers think about what they need: peace or Putin.” Recent deadly air strikes by Russia have renewed Zelensky’s calls for the U.S. to further loosen restrictions and obtain even greater Western capabilities to strike deeper inside Russia. However, the meeting Friday was expected to focus on resourcing more air defence and artillery supplies and shoring up gains on expanding Ukraine’s own defence industrial base, to put it on more solid footing as the final days of Joe Biden’s U.S. presidency wind down.
No decisions on the munition have been made, LaPlante said, noting that policy-makers would still have to decide whether to give Ukraine the longer-range capability.
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