Russia has in recent weeks pummeled Ukraine in the east , where Ukraine is outmanned and outgunned, Ukrainian officials have said. One major hang-up, the sources said, had been the rocket systems' extensive range. Ukraine is already believed to have carried out numerous cross-border strikes inside Russia , which Ukrainian officials neither confirm nor deny. One workaround could be to provide Ukraine with shorter-range rocket systems, officials said, which is also under consideration. When Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was asked Thursday what his country's most urgent needs are, he responded: "If you really care for Ukraine, weapons, weapons and weapons again."

Source: CNN May 28, 2022 04:50 UTC