Ukraine-Russia war latest: Germany says Western allies are lifting range limits on weapons sent to Kyiv
Ukraine is no longer restricted from carrying out “long-range” strikes against Russia with weapons supplied by its Western allies, German chancellor Friedrich Merz has said.
“Until a while ago, it couldn’t. It can now,” Mr Merz said. “We call this ‘long-range fire’ in jargon, also supplying Ukraine with weapons that attack military targets in the hinterland,” he added.
It comes after Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin “absolutely crazy” for a record-breaking drone attack on its smaller neighbour, and the Kremlin said the US president was being “emotional”.
Mr Trump issued some of his sharpest criticism of Mr Putin after Russia fired 355 drones and nine missiles at Ukraine — the largest aerial attack of the more than three year war.
He added that if the Russian leader tried to conquer all of Ukraine, it would “lead to the downfall of Russia” as he warned of further sanctions.
Russia has carried out more than 900 attacks on Ukraine in the past 72 hours, the war-hit nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address, stating that the strikes are a “political choice” made by Mr Putin.
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