Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky vents anger at long-range missile delay as Putin ‘burns down our cities’
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has said it is “difficult to repeatedly hear” Western allies say they are “working on” a decision to free up long-range missiles while “Putin continues to burn down our cities and villages”.
Mr Zelensky has been calling for the US and UK to agree to allow them to strike infrastructure such as airfields that contributes to the barrages of missiles and drones that strike across Ukraine on a near-daily basis.
The president wrote on X: “Putin interprets delays in helping us and in making strong decisions for Ukraine as permission to do whatever he wants.”
It comes as President Vladimir Putin warned Nato will be directly at war with Moscow if the US and UK allow Kyiv to use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia.
The Russian president claimed the programming of Western missileswould have to be done by Nato military personnel - bringing the organisation into direct confrontation with the Kremlin.
Mr Zelensky has pleaded with allies for months to allow his military to fire long-range US ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles inside Russian territory.
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