Today, Ukrainian officials again called on the West to allow it to strike deeper into Russia, as the use of the delivered long-range weapons was not approved by the President of the United States of America (USA) Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a meeting on Friday in Washington.
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"Russian terror begins in weapons warehouses, airports and military bases within the Russian Federation," said Andriy Yermak, adviser to the Ukrainian president. "Permission to strike deep into Russia will accelerate the resolution" of the war, he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pressing the US and other allies to allow his forces to use Western weapons to target Russian air bases and launch missiles at longer ranges, as Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine's electricity grid and utility infrastructure to weaken it for the winter.
"We need to strengthen our anti-aircraft defense and long-range strike capability to protect our people," Zelensky wrote on social media, adding: "We are working on this with Ukraine's allies."
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly urged allies to allow the use of long-range weapons provided by the West to attack targets deep inside Russian territory. So far, the US has allowed Kiev to use weapons only in a limited border area.
Allowing long-range kicks is believed to have been a topic of a meeting between Biden and Starmer in Washington, but no decision was announced after that meeting.
Officials in Moscow continued to warn that long-range strikes would cause further escalation between Russia and the West.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the state news agency TASS today that the US and UK governments are "pushing the conflict in Ukraine, which Russia invaded in February 2022, towards an ill-controlled escalation".
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