Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday asked his Western allies for long-range missiles, as well as fighter jets, after Washington and Berlin gave the green light to send heavy tanks to Kyiv after bitter discussions.
“We must also allow the sending of long-range missiles to Ukraine, this is important. We must also expand our cooperation in artillery and (make possible) the sending of combat aircraft,” Volodymyr Zelensky urged in his daily speech posted on social media. networks
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The Ukrainian leader said he repeated his request to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a telephone interview.
Volodymyr Zelensky also once again thanked US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for giving the go-ahead earlier today to send Western battle tanks to Ukraine for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022.
“I thank all our allies for their willingness to give us modern and indispensable tanks,” he said.
“The key now is speed and volume”
However, he insisted that “the key”, according to him, to overthrowing Russian forces on the battlefield was “now the speed and volume” of his heavy tank deliveries to his army.
“The key now is speed and volume. The speed of training our soldiers, the speed of tank deliveries (…) and the volume of support,” he hammered, while Kyiv still claims several hundred tanks to be able to launch a counterattack. -offensive against the Russians.
These announcements of deliveries of Western military equipment to Kyiv come as fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has been on the offensive in recent days.
According to the Ukrainian president, who celebrated his 45th birthday this Wednesday, his army must face “dozens of enemy attacks every day” in the Donbass.
Source: BFM TV
