Defense Minsiter Rustem Umerov met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States House of Representatives during their visit to Kyiv on Aug. 21, the Defense Ministry announced. Republican Rep. Rob Wittman and Democratic Rep. David Trone spoke with Umerov about the situation on Ukraine’s front lines and Washington’s policy on Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons against Russian targets. “I emphasized the need to obtain prompt permission from our allies to fully use long-range weapons against targets in Russia,” Umerov said. “This is a matter of protecting our peaceful cities and villages.”…