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.

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,

Ukraine's foreign minister said on Saturday that Russia is planning strikes on Ukrainian nuclear facilities before the winter, and urged the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog and Ukraine's allies to establish permanent monitoring missions at the country's nuclear plants.

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

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,

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 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,