Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended the British cabinet meeting in Downing Street yesterday with two main goals: to strengthen the alliance with the UK and to pressure the new prime minister, Keir Starmer, to allow the use of long-range weapons on Russian territory. “I ask you to show leadership in this matter and the ability to convince other partners to remove the current border. We need this step that will force Russia to seek peace,” the Ukrainian president said in his first participation in the forum. A foreign leader at a British cabinet meeting since former US President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Ukraine insists on lifting restrictions on the use of Western long-range weapons to attack key military targets on Russian territory, outside the areas close to the Ukrainian border. The facility, Zelensky says, will allow his country to protect itself from Russian attacks on residential areas, hospitals and schools, while at the same time securing positions on the front line of the war.
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