Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service comedy line from our studios

in Central London I'm Julian Marshall.

Ukraine's President Zelensk has been I'm Julian Marshall.

Ukraine's President Zelensky has been pleading with his allies for months to allow Ukraine to fire Western supplied long-range missiles deep into Russia. It certainly has the means to do so with attack-ems

supplied by the United States and storm shadows,

supplied by the United Kingdom. And he again made the case for restrictions on their

use being lifted in a speech today in Kyiv.

The Russians are using their aviation to launch 4,000 guided bombs a month in the

east. What is the use of attack-hams in the form that we have them today? If you cannot use them on their military bases or

on their sites where they have helicopters or on their military airfields where they have

their airplanes, there's no point.

President Putin now has warned of consequences of restrictions on the use of these long-range missiles

are lifted by the United States and the UK and his warning was repeated today by Russia's UN Ambassador Vassilin N Benzia at a meeting of the

UN Security Council in New York.

If the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, that will mean that from that moment

NATO countries are conducting direct war with Russia. In that case we will have to, as you

understand, take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the

Western aggressors would incur.

Well the two men who could make the decision to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles

into Russia, a meeting today in Washington, President Biden and the British Prime Minister

Kirs-Stama.

I spoke earlier to Daniel Freed, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, who

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