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

Russia has been waging an aerial bombardment campaign on Ukraine's power grid since autumn 2022 after invading the country earlier that year. It has damaged or destroyed most of Ukraine's thermal power generating capacity and has sometimes hit dams, but has not yet struck any Ukrainian-controlled nuclear facilities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that Ukraine had deployed domestically produced - rather than Western-supplied - weapons to strike military depots in Russia. Source: President Zelenskyy's video address on 21 September Quote from Zelenskyy: "Another arms depot has been hit in Russia,

Russia warned the West and Ukraine on Friday of "disastrous consequences" if Kyiv moved against close Russian ally Belarus, making clear it would intervene to defend a country where it has deployed tactical nuclear weapons.

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,

The agreement for Ukrainians to use Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation is still a topic of discussion among Kyiv's Western allies. Moscow is taking stringent measures to prevent this,