'Push Russia harder', Zelensky urges as war reaches 1,000th day

'The Russian military will be punished,' Ukraine's foreign ministry says as it marks the milestone.

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"The more time he [Putin] has, the worse the conditions become," he told a special session of the European Parliament on Tuesday.

Zelensky spoke amid speculation that Ukraine had for the first time used the US-supplied Atacams long range missile system to hit a target deep inside Russia, a day after Washington signalled its permission.

An ammunition warehouse was struck with the missiles in the Russian region of Bryansk, about 100 kilometres from the border, an unconfirmed report on the RBC Ukraine news website said.

But Kyiv often uses domestic drones to hit targets inside Russia, and there was no immediate evidence that US missiles were used.

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