Next week, an already very public debate over whether Ukraine should be allowed to use long-range Western-supplied missiles on Russian soil will come under an even brighter international spotlight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that the end of the more than 2-1/2-year-old war with Russia depended on the "resolve" of Kyiv's Western allies in providing needed weaponry and permission to use it.

Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted and destroyed Russian arsenals in the Tver and Krasnodar regions of the Russian Federation early Saturday morning.

Ukraine's F-16s are being impacted by Western restrictions on Ukraine hitting targets in Russia with long-range missiles, military experts told BI.

Ukraine's foreign minister urged the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog and Ukraine's allies to establish permanent monitoring missions at the country's nuclear plants.

The agreement allowing Ukrainians to use Western weapons on Russian territory remains a topic of debate among Kyiv's Western allies. Moscow is striving to prevent this and has now issued threats to use the SS-18 "Satan" missile,