#russia #ukraine - 'Too risky'? Ukraine says West should permit long-range attacks in Russia • FRANCE 24 English

3 September 2024

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday Ukraine's Western allies should not only allow their weapons to be used for strikes deep inside Russia, but also supply Kyiv with more of the arms themselves.

Ukraine has long urged partners to allow it to fire Western weapons at targets far into enemy territory, and those calls have grown louder as Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian energy installations, other infrastructure and residential buildings intensify.

For more, FRANCE 24's Delano D'Souza is joined by Patrick Bury, former NATO analyst and senior lecturer in Security at University of Bath in the UK.

"Putin couldn't control the Russian media and the war bloggers on this, it's all over Russia that the Ukrainians did this."

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At least 40 people have been killed and 180 injured after two Russian ballistic missiles hit a military training facility and hospital in a central Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky says.

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