Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night that he has not yet has received “authorization from Washington and London to use long-range missiles against Russia, certainly due to fear of escalation,", reported France Press.
„Neither America nor the UK have given us permission to use such weapons to strike Russian territory, on any target and at any distance, so Kiev has not done it," the Ukrainian president to journalists. “I think they fear escalation,” he added.
Western military aid “stepped up in early September and we are happy about that. "We feel it," added Zelensky.
The Ukrainian president criticized the peace initiative on the war in Ukraine proposed in the spring by China and Brazil, saying it was not a “concrete plan”.
„I don't think it's a concrete plan because I don't see any specific actions or steps, just some generalization of the processes. In a generalization, something always remains hidden,” he told the media, including AFP, with his statements embargoed until this morning.