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Zelenskiy says allies should permit long-range attacks
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine’s allies should not only allow their weapons to be used for strikes deep inside Russia but also supply the country with more of the arms themselves.
Ukraine has long urged partners to allow it to fire foreign-provided 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.
After a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday, Zelenskiy said Ukraine was “more positive” about the prospects of getting such permission.
“For today, only to allow – is also not enough,” he said, adding that allies should ensure deliveries of weapons to use for such attacks.
“We didn’t get everything we would like to use,” Zelenskiy added.
Zelenskiy added that some agreements on supplies had not been fulfilled.
He said he discussed with Schoof strengthening Ukraine’s air defences.
During our talks with Dutch Prime Minister @MinPres, we discussed ways to strengthen our defense against Russian terror and bring us closer to a just peace.Key priorities include air defense, the supply of additional Patriot systems and missiles for them, the expansion of our… pic.twitter.com/lPMXMynGaC— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 2, 2024
He mentioned there were “some ideas” on how to increase the fleet of F-16 jets donated by allies, one of which was lost in a crash in Ukraine last week.
“We will keep providing air defence equipment, and F-16s, and funding for munitions,” Schoof said.
Schoof added that the Netherlands would provide Ukraine with about 200 million euros ($A327 million) in support to repair energy infrastructure and for humanitarian assistance.
The Netherlands will deliver refurbished gas turbines with a total value of 29.5 million euros and has allocated 45 million euros for repairing energy infrastructure, the Dutch foreign ministry said in a statement.
The money comes from a 400-million-euro aid fund the Dutch government pledged to Ukraine earlier this year.
Zelenskiy also commented on the situation on front lines, saying that Ukraine’s cross-border incursion into Russia’s western region of Kursk was moving “according to the plan”.
He added that Ukraine believed the operation could help to ease pressure on the Pokrovsk front in Ukraine’s east, where Russia has accelerated its advances.
So far, he said, the situation there remained difficult.
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