Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Thursday asked European leaders to provide more weapons “to punish the Russian aggressor” and prevent “Russian tanks from going to Warsaw or Prague”, seven months after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reports AFP.

“The aggressor must be punished,” he told 44 European leaders gathered in Prague via video, “this war must be won now so that the Russian navy cannot block other ports in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean or any other sea. So that Russian tanks do not advance on Warsaw or Prague.”

He confirmed that the current counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops will continue.

Ukraine announced Thursday that it had regained control of another 400 square kilometers in the country’s south, where its counteroffensive has put Russian forces under pressure. The Ukrainian army announced that since October 1 it had recaptured 29 settlements in the Kherson region occupied by the Russians.

In Donetsk region (in the east), another territory annexed by Russia, at least 14 people have been killed and three wounded over the past day in areas controlled by Kyiv, the Ukrainian presidency reports.

At the diplomatic level, the European Union approved a new package of sanctions against Moscow. During this time, OPEC+ decided to sharply reduce oil production quotas in order to support prices, in conditions where hydrocarbons remain the main source of income for Russia, reports Agerpres.