The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also announced that 1.3 billion Danish Krone ($194 billion dollars) would be earmarked to support Ukraine's military procurement efforts, and that Denmark would manage a 394.6 million-euro E.U. fund to finance Ukraine's defense industry.

Head of Western alliance’s military committee says Ukraine has the legal and military right to launch long-range strikes in self-defense.

The outgoing head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday he welcomed talks on Ukraine's use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russian territory, but any decision on the issue would have to be made by individual allies.

The Russian president said Western support for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia would put his country and NATO “at war.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned NATO alliance leaders that a move to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of longer-range Western missiles to strike deep inside his country would be considered an act of war.

Over the weekend, the military committee of the NATO alliance met to plot the next stage in its war against Russia, with the Alliance’s top military leader calling for Ukraine to be allowed to use NATO weapons to strike inside Russia.

Five people were killed Saturday in Russian aerial attacks on the Ukrainian city of Odessa and a farm in the Zaporizhzhia region.