US, UK pledge economic aid for Ukraine, quick action on arms requests

Russia has been advancing on the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, a month after Kyiv launched a shock counter-offensive into Russia’s Kursk region.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ramped up his requests over recent months to the West to provide weapons with more firepower and fewer restrictions.
“It is important to lift any restrictions on the use of US and British weapons against legitimate military targets in Russia,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Sybiga told the joint conference with his counterparts, who earlier met Zelenskyy.
Blinken said that the United States would look at the requests “with urgency” and that they would be discussed Friday in Washington when President Joe Biden meets UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Biden, asked in Washington on Tuesday whether he would let Ukraine use longer-range weapons for strikes on Russian targets, said: “We’re working that out right now.”