As Russian forces advance deeper into eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian
troops continue their incursion of Kursk, a fresh appeal from
Kiev, it's calling on the EU to use its way
over the United States and Britain to lift restrictions on
Ukraine's use of long range weaponry inside Russia.
The outstanding issue on our agenda is the permission for
Ukraine to strike legitimate.
I emphasize legitimate military targets in the depths of Russia,
and here we are mainly talking about airfields, which are
used by Russia to launch their bombers, strategic bombers and
tactical bombers to attack Ukrainian forces and to attack Ukrainian
citizen infrastructure.
The Ukrainian foreign minister's appeal was echoed by Europe's top
diplomat.
Joseph Burrell insists that if restrictions are in place, the
donated weapons themselves are pointless.
The weaponry that we are providing to the Ukraine have
to have full views and the restrictions have to be
lived in order for the Ukrainians to be able to
target the places where Russia is bumping them.
Otherwise the weaponry is useless.
Ukraine says it needs restrictions on the use of long
range weapons lifted to keep up the momentum after its
surprise incursion into, while officials in Brussels want the limits
taken off.
The member states, including Italy and Hungary, share similar reservations
as the US and Britain that the lifting of all
restrictions will only escalate the conflict with Moscow even further.