Joe Biden’s delay in sanctioning the use of western weapons against targets in Russia has left the Kremlin’s forces laughing at Ukraine and able to ‘hunt’ its people, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told the Guardian in an interview in Kyiv.
On Thursday night it emerged that, after months of lobbying, the US had taken a small but symbolic step – and for the first time would permit some American made weapons to be used by Kyiv’s military to fire inside Russia in its defence of the city of Kharkiv. But in his Guardian interview, Zelenskiy makes clear he needs to be able to use long-range weapons that can hit targets inside deep Russian territory – a red line the White House has refused to lift