President Zelensky meets US officials
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has mocked Russia’s claim to be using laser weapons as “a sign of the complete failure of the invasion”.
Moscow said it was using a new generation of powerful weapons to burn up drones to counter a flood of Western arms supplied to Ukraine.
Mr Zelensky said: “Well, in the propaganda of Nazi Germany there was such a term as ‘wunderwaffe’. Wonder weapon. The clearer it became they had no chance in the war, the more propaganda there was about the wonder weapon, which would be so powerful that it would provide a turning point in the war.
“And here we see that in the third month of a full-scale war, Russia is trying to find its ‘wunderwaffe’. Allegedly laser. All this clearly indicates the complete failure of the invasion.”
Meanwhile, Russia has fired some of its most senior military commanders over the failure to capture Kharkiv and the sinking of the Moskva warship in April, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
The defence ministry said a “culture of cover-ups and scapegoating is probably prevalent within the Russian military and security system”.
