Foreign minister’s request followed Zelenskiy saying sanctions must go further or Russia would see them as ‘permission to attack’

Ukraine has called for more heavy weaponry from its western allies and “ruinous” sanctions against Moscow, as EU member states prepared to halt Russian coal imports but remained divided over a more far-reaching energy ban.

“My agenda is very simple,” the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Thursday before a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels. It has only three items on it. It’s weapons, weapons, and weapons.”

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