"Despite all my respect for every country and, of course, for our partners in Ireland – we need permission to use long-range weapons precisely from those countries that give us this long-range weapon, it depends on them," Zelenskyy said.

He stressed that this does not depend on a coalition of all friendly partners – it depends on "very specific states": the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

"Today, only these four countries either provide or are capable of providing the long-range weapons that can help us push the Russian Federation out of our territory and save the lives of civilians," the president said.