Or cruise missiles. Their main purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore they asked their partners to provide them with long range weapons and president zelensky has already responded to this attack by once again calling on his partners to allow them to use these weapons to hit targets deep inside russia. Ukraine currently cannot use weapons provided, such as storm shadows and other missiles, to hit deep inside russia and the ukrainian partners say that if they allow them to do so, it will only escalate the war. However, the ukrainian authorities say that these weapons will be used only to hit military targets such as airfields from where russian bombers take off and attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president zelensky fired the head of the ukrainian air force, mykola oleshchuk days after an f 16fighterjet crashed, killing its pilot. The f 16 was recently sent by nato allies. It crashed while