Zelensky: Ukraine needs unrestricted military aid
According to Ukrinform, he said this in his speech at the NATO summit via video link.
"The Ukrainian army has been resisting [Russian aggression] for a month in unequal conditions! And I have been repeating the same thing for a month now. To save people and our cities, Ukraine needs military assistance - without restrictions. In the same way that Russia is using its full arsenal without restrictions against us, destroying all living things, any objects - from houses to churches, from food warehouses to universities, from bridges to hospitals. Ukraine asked you to provide aircraft so that we do not lose so many people. And you have thousands of fighter jets! But we haven't been given a single aircraft yet. We asked for tanks so that we could unblock our cities that are dying now - Mariupol, Berdiansk, Melitopol, others. Cities where Russia is holding hundreds of thousands of people hostage and artificially creating hunger - no water, no food, there's nothing there. You have at least 20,000 tanks! Ukraine asked for one percent. One percent of all your tanks! Give them to us or sell them to us. But we do not have a clear answer yet. [...] The worst thing during the war is not having clear answers to requests for help," Zelensky said.
He also stressed that Ukraine never wanted this war and does not want to fight for years.
"We just want to save our people. We just want to survive! Like any nation, we have a right to it. The right to life. The right to this one percent. And I do not blame NATO, I want to be clear. You are not to blame for that. It's not your missiles, it's not your bombs that are destroying our cities. This morning, by the way, there were phosphorus bombs. Phosphorus Russian bombs. Adults were killed again, and children were killed again. I just want you to know: the alliance can still prevent the deaths of Ukrainians from Russian strikes, from Russian occupation by giving us all the weapons we need," he said.
On February 24, Russia launched unprovoked large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, which was met with fierce opposition from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the entire nation.
Three summits will be held in Brussels on March 24 - in NATO, in the EU and in the G7 format, which will focus on responding to the crisis provoked by Putin's war against Ukraine.
