President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday to step up advocacy among Ukraine's Western partners to allow strikes on military targets deep inside Russia.
Zelensky urged Trudeau to lobby allies to grant, "Ukraine permission and the necessary means to strike military targets on the territory of the aggressor country," he said in an English-language post on X after the two leaders spoke by phone.
NATO member Canada, which has one of the world's largest Ukrainian diasporas, has supplied military and financial assistance to Kyiv since Russia invaded in February 2022.
Trudeau's office said in a statement that he told Zelensky that Russia's attacks "further strengthen global unity and resolve in support of Ukraine at upcoming international engagements."
Zelensky said on Telegram that the two leaders also discussed a conference that Canada is due to host on the topic of prisoners. The conference is a follow-up to a peace summit that Kyiv convened in June.
Trudeau's office said Canada would host the meeting at the level of foreign ministers.
In Ottawa, a source directly familiar with the matter said the meeting would most likely take place in October.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a "full and immediate ceasefire" after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other's military installations.
The Group of Seven (G7) major countries on Friday urged India and Pakistan to engage in direct dialogue as hostilities rise between the nuclear-armed neighbours, while the US government said it has offered assistance in starting "constructive talks".
An order was lifted on Saturday to confine around 160,000 people in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region after a fire at an industrial estate caused a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area, the regional government said.
A facility that guides air traffic in and out of Newark airport suffered a new 90-second communications outage early on Friday, the second in two weeks that prompted an air traffic controller to complain "Scopes just went black again" to a nearby FedEx flight.
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks in Kyiv on Saturday in a show of unity a day after Russia's Vladimir Putin hosted his allies at a Victory Day parade in Red Square.
Sudanese nationals in the UAE will be exempt from paying outstanding residency or visa fines under a move by the Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security (ICP) to help them regularise their stay.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has welcomed the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, expressing hope that it contributes to enhancing security and stability in the region.
The UAE has outlined its "sincere efforts" over the last two years to seek a civilian-led political solution in Sudan that protects innocents from "tragedy and humanitarian suffering".