Russia said Wednesday its forces destroyed a depot containing NATO-supplied arms in western Ukraine.
"Near the town of Zolochiv in Lviv region, high-precision long-range Kalibr missiles destroyed an ammunition depot of foreign weapons transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries, including 155-mm M777 howitzers," the defense ministry said in a statement.
The strikes came as Ukraine keeps up its pressure on Western country to deliver more arms, and as NATO countries pledge more heavy weapons for Ukraine.
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had received just 10 percent of the weapons it requested from the West to deter Russia's military intervention.
Russian forces are currently concentrating their firepower on the strategically important industrial hub of Severodonetsk as part of efforts to capture a swathe of eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council and former president Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Russia appears intent on the destruction of its neighbor.
In a Telegram post, he wrote that he saw reports that Ukraine wants to receive liquified natural gas in a deal from its “overseas masters” with payment due in two years.
He added: "But there’s a question. Who said that in two years Ukraine will even exist on the map of the world?”
Medvedev, the former president, has been making harsh statements against Ukraine and the West since the war began on Telegram.
