Russia’s defence ministry stated Wednesday its forces had destroyed a huge amount of Western-furnished guns in southeastern Ukraine with long-variety missiles.
“On the territory of the Zaporizhzhia aluminium plant, high-precision long-variety sea-primarily based totally Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a huge batch of overseas guns and ammunition furnished with the aid of using the US and European nations for Ukrainian troops,” the ministry stated in a briefing.
It did now no longer say what kind of guns had been destroyed.
On Tuesday, at the invitation of the US, forty nations held a protection summit in Germany to talk about fingers components to Ukraine with Washington pledging to move “heaven and earth” to assist the Kyiv military defeat Russia.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pleading for heavier firepower to keep off the Russian boost withinside the Donbas, however allies are cautious of being drawn right into a battle that might spiral into an outright navy war of words among Moscow and NATO.