Ukraine will target enemy territory with its own weapons – top commander

Zaluzhnyi made the statement in an interview with the Washington Post.

Due to the lack of weapons, the absence of new Western aircraft and restrictions placed by allies regarding long-range missiles (these weapons cannot be used to strike at Russia’s territory), according to Zaluzhnyi, "he uses weapons made in Ukraine for the frequent strikes across the border that Kyiv never officially acknowledges as its own."

"To save my people, why do I have to ask someone for permission what to do on enemy territory? For some reason, I have to think that I’m not allowed to do anything there. Why? Because Putin will … use nuclear weapons? The kids who are dying don’t care. This is our problem, and it is up to us to decide how to kill this enemy. It is possible and necessary to kill on his territory in a war. If our partners are afraid to use their weapons, we will kill with our own. But only as much as is necessary."

• In the same interview, Zaluzhnyi emphasized that Ukraine would recapture the temporarily occupied Crimea as soon as it had the means to do so.

• He also shared the story of how in 2019, when he came to Brussels for the NATO summit, he was detained by Interpol.