Kyiv has for weeks been pressing the West to allow it to use Western-supplied long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The US and Britain have not authorised Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets inside Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

The United States and the United Kingdom have not authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles on targets inside Russia, possibly out of fear of an "escalation," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that firing long-range weapons into his country would signify that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member-nations were at war with Moscow.