Kyiv seeks US permission to use long-range missiles to hit Russian air bases

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Ukraine has accused Russia and China of trying to undermine this month’s “global peace summit” and urged Washington to allow it to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike airbases inside Russia. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more than 100 states and organisations had agreed to attend the June 15th-16th summit in Switzerland, to which Russia has not been invited. Kyiv hopes to forge a global consensus around its plan to end the war and then present it to Moscow at a subsequent international meeting. “The United States is in contact with some states and is encouraging them to take part...