Ukraine needs long-range missiles, in particular, to remove the possibility of the occupiers to place their missile launchers somewhere far from the front line and destroy Ukrainian cities with them, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following the 28 January deadly attack on Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Region.
The Russian attack on the town with S-300 missiles left three people killed and 14 injured.
"These Russian missiles hit four residential buildings in Kostiantynivka. And such shelling, unfortunately, is an everyday reality in our territories, which the Russian army reaches with such missiles. Donbas, Kharkiv region, the south of the country," he added.
"It would have been possible to stop this Russian terror if we could provide the appropriate missile capabilities of our military. So that terrorists do not have a sense of impunity," he said.