Ukraine War: What weapons does Zelenskyy want from the West ahead of a visit by top US officials? | World News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for more “powerful weapons” from allies ahead of an expected visit by US officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this weekend that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv on Sunday to discuss Ukraine’s call for more powerful weapons.
Earlier, he said that negotiations with his American guests would cover the “heavy, powerful weapons” Ukraine needs to recapture territory and speed deliveries.
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He also mentioned the importance of weapons arriving quickly from the US and UK during a press conference on Saturday night at a subway station, which also served as a bomb shelter for local residents at the start of the two-month invasion. prior to.
Talk to Sky News ‘Deborah Haynes“I do not believe that our partners will not provide the weapons we need, which they have promised. They have no alternative,” he said.
“We have no choice but to protect our land and get it back. What other option would be? That we have no state and no people – this would just be a land of land. burned.
“This is the only alternative that I would consider.”
He later added during the conference that he would discuss the “exact list of weapons” that Ukraine needs with his American guests.
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Mr. Zelenskyy: “Tomorrow we will discuss the exact list of weapons needed for us and the speed of delivery.
“We want … powerful heavy weapons. As soon as we have (more weapons), as soon as we have enough of them, believe me, we will immediately retake this or that territory. temporarily occupied territory.”
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The United States and its NATO allies have demonstrated a willingness to provide heavier equipment and more advanced weapon systems.
Britain has also promised to send military vehicles and said it was considering supplying British tanks to Poland to free the Russian-designed T-72s in Warsaw to Ukraine.
It comes after Mr Zelenskyy said that Russia had fired most of its missile arsenal at Ukraine.
“Of course, they still have missiles left over,” he said. Of course, they can still continue their missile terror against our people.
“But what they did do was a strong enough argument for the world to finally recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and the Russian military as a terrorist organization.”
Russia has denied targeting civilians in its “special military operation”.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it used high-precision missiles to destroy a logistics depot in Odesa containing weapons supplied by the US and European countries.
The last major strike in or near Odesa was in early April.
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What will Ukraine discuss with the US?
The White House has not confirmed any visits by Mr. Blinken and Mr. Austin to Ukraine.
The State Department and Pentagon were not immediately available for comment, so the exact details of the meeting are unknown.
Mr Zelenskyy spoke publicly again earlier today in an Easter video message from Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old Saint Sophia Cathedral.
He said Ukraine would not be defeated by “evil” and prayed “endurance for those who, unfortunately, will not see the return of their child from the front”.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called for “a real Easter truce in Mariupol” on Twitter.
“The place where our civilians and our troops are lying are shelled by bombs and heavy artillery,” he said.
Taking Mariupol, the site of the biggest battle of the conflict, would link the pro-Russian separatists who control the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk that make up the Donbas with the Crimean peninsula south of the Sea. Black that Moscow captured in 2014.
