Ukraine needs powerful offensive weapons, without which war will only drag on - Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his address to the participants in the American Jewish Committee Global Forum, Ukrinform reports.

"Defend the need to enhance sanctions against Russia. You are capable of it. Help us speed up the supply of weapons to Ukraine so that we can liberate the occupied territories. We need powerful weapons for the offensive, without which the war will only drag on and the number of victims will increase," Zelensky said.

He thanked the American Jewish Committee for "substantive help" to Ukraine, but called for redoubled efforts to "stop Russian hatred".

He said he was convinced that now is a "historic opportunity to defend our common freedom, our common security, our common cultural diversity from the greatest wave of hatred that has threatened the world in recent decades."

"How could mass killings, torture, burned cities, filtration camps set up by the Russian military in the occupied territories, which resemble Nazi concentration camps, become a reality? And yet Russia hopes that it will not bear responsibility for all this evil, for all these barbaric strikes at houses, hospitals and churches. Russia still has the power to hope to continue the war against Ukraine, against people and ignore the world's reaction," Zelensky said.

On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops are shelling and destroying critical infrastructure and residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns and villages using artillery, MLRS, air bombs and ballistic missiles.

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