Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded the West lift weapons restrictions on targeting Russia after accusing Moscow’s forces of dropping more than 800 glide bombs in a single week.

“This week alone, Russia has used more than 800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Against our cities and communities, against our people, against everything that makes life normal,” Mr Zelensky wrote on X.

“Ukraine needs the necessary means to destroy the carriers of these bombs, including Russian combat aircraft, wherever they are. This step is essential.”

Glide bombs are heavy Soviet-era munitions fitted with precision guidance systems and launched from aircraft flying out of range of air defenses. The bombs can have a payload of 1.5 tonnes.

On Sunday, Russia hit Ukraine’s two largest cities with a glide bomb killing one person and injuring an eight-month-old baby in Kharkiv, while missile fragments damaged a Kyiv apartment building.

Mr Zelensky had repeated his appeal for permission to strike further into Russia after seven were killed and at least 38 injured after a Russian missile strike on the southern Ukrainian town of Vilniansk on Saturday evening.

Ukraine’s Western allies have already given Ukraine long-range precision weapons, including the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles, Scalps from France and the more recently supplied ATACMS from the US.

“Long-range strikes and modern air defense are the foundation for stopping the daily Russian terror,” Mr Zelensky added last night.

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