A US political news outlet says Western allies of Ukraine do not appear to be pressing Kyiv to limit the use of weapons they supplied to the country in its ongoing cross-border incursion into Russia.
Politico carried an article regarding the offensive that the Ukrainian military has been mounting in the western Russian region of Kursk since Tuesday.
The article says, “As Ukraine widens its attacks inside Russia, there is no sign that the country’s sometimes reluctant Western allies are putting pressure on Kyiv to ease off.”
The United States and other countries previously called on Ukraine to restrict the use of Western-made weapons only for limited purposes if its military launches the munitions to hit targets in Russian territory.
The Russian defense ministry said on Sunday that its forces had destroyed four armored personnel carriers, including three US-made ones, as well as seven armored combat vehicles in their efforts to repel the Ukrainian incursion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that his country “is proving that it really knows how to restore justice and guarantees exactly the kind of pressure that is needed — pressure on the aggressor.”
Meanwhile, Russian forces intensified their attacks on eastern and other parts of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia targeted Ukraine with four short-range ballistic missiles and drones overnight between Saturday and Sunday.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Sunday that a 35-year-old man and his 4-year-old son were found dead under the rubble of a building hit by Russian rocket fragments.
Zelenskyy said in a social media post that preliminary information indicates Russian forces used a North Korean missile in the attack.