Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski Urges EU to Lift Restrictions on Ukraine's Use of Long-Range Weapons

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, during a meeting with his EU counterparts, asked them to lift the restrictions imposed by their countries on Ukraine's use of long-range weapons.

TVN24 reported this with reference to Sikorski's statement to journalists following the meeting in Brussels.

Sikorski stressed that the meeting of the foreign ministers was the first ‘after the barbaric attack on the children's cancer hospital’ in Kyiv.

‘That is why I asked my fellow ministers to lift national restrictions on the use of long-range weapons. So that Ukraine can prevent such attacks in the future by hitting the planes that fire cruise missiles and the airports from which they take off,’ he said.

According to the Polish foreign minister, these actions are in line with ‘self-defence, which is legal under international law’.

‘Protecting children's cancer hospitals is not an escalation,’ Sikorski concluded.

During the NATO summit, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed hope that the US would lift all restrictions on strikes on Russian territory, which would allow Ukraine to protect its cities from guided bomb attacks.

He later said that Ukraine was gradually changing the West's position on strikes on military targets in Russia's rear and was already receiving ‘positive signals’ to expand the permission to use weapons from Western allies.