Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with NBC Zelensky named the condition for accelerating the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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As long as the Russians control the skies and Ukraine lacks sufficient protection, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot advance quickly.
We don’t have enough air defenses, so Russia controls the skies. What will happen when we have enough air defense systems from our partners? Our troops will leave. No, they will run forward and everything will go faster. Because we cannot use our people as meat, like the Russians do. Our top 1 request to our partners is to balance our forces in the sky. We have to wait a long time for the F-16 through training and so on, and air defense is more of a solution to the issue. I talked about this with Biden – not to give air defense, but to produce it together. It’s expensive and we don’t need gifts. And this is important, these are also jobs,” said the President of Ukraine.
He also called on the US Congress to approve aid to Ukraine or “risk a bigger war.”
If Russia kills us all, it will attack NATO countries and you will send your sons and daughters there. And it will be – sorry, but the price will be higher,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg.
The Ukrainian president also called on Congress “not to lose freedom, not to lose this strong position and not to lose our democracy.”
The President warns partners that a dangerous “alternative” to continued support for Ukraine could be a Russian attack on one of the NATO countries. He stated this in an interview with “Meet the Press” on NBC.
Zelensky said it was important that Ukraine’s allies continue to provide support as Kyiv defends common values such as democracy.
Zelensky also repeated his calls for more air defense systems from the United States, noting that Ukraine especially needs drones that can attack and gather intelligence.
Also, speaking to the press, the President of Ukraine rejected the suggestion that the war with Russia seemed to have reached a “dead end”, and noted that Ukraine was considering changes in its strategy in order to strike Russia unexpectedly.
Source: Racurs
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