French President Emmanuel Macron said Ukraine should be allowed to use allied weapons to hit targets in Russia, but only those used to launch attacks.

Representatives of Finland, Canada, and Poland issued separate statements on May 29 saying Ukraine can use their weapons to strike targets on Russian territory.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg this week called on alliance members supplying weapons to Ukraine to lift restrictions on Kyiv using them to strike military targets inside Russia.

The Ministry of Defence of Poland has stated that Ukraine can use the Polish-supplied armament to launch attacks on the territory of Russia. Source: Cezary Tomczyk, Deputy Minister of Defence of Poland,

Emmanuel Macron has called for Ukraine to be allowed to use western weapons against military sites in Russia, becoming the most senior Nato leader to ask for targeting restrictions set by Kyiv’s backers to be lifted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict.

The Netherlands will deliver parts of a Patriot air defence system to Ukraine and is talking to other countries in order to assemble a complete system, Dutch defence minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany would not prohibit Ukrainian attacks on Russian military targets, saying Ukraine "is allowed to defend itself."

Russian forces are trying to seize as much Ukrainian territory as possible in an effort to force Kyiv’s allies to agree to a freeze in fighting before weapons deliveries fill a crucial gap, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke out in favour of allowing Ukraine to use Western weapons to attack Russian positions on Russian territory, as the question was discussed elsewhere in Europe. "We think that we should allow them to neutralise the military sites from which the missiles are fired and basically the military sites from which Ukraine is attacked,