The arsenal is about to run out, the President of Ukraine calls on the West to increase aid

Some countries have pledged to send anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles as well as small arms to Ukraine, but President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 26 that Ukraine needed tanks, aircraft and anti-ship weapons.

“Those are the weapons that our partners have. They guarantee not only the freedom of Ukraine, but also of Europe,” Zelensky stressed.

Zelensky said that Ukraine only needs 1% of NATO aircraft, 1% of tanks and will not ask for more.

On the same day, President Zelensky spoke to his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and expressed disappointment that Russian-made fighter jets in Eastern Europe have not yet been delivered to Ukraine.

“The price of the delay in the delivery of the plane is thousands of Ukrainian lives,” Zelensky was quoted as saying by the office of the President of Ukraine.

The President of Ukraine said that both Poland and the United States declared their readiness to make a decision on the transfer of aircraft to Kiev.

Speaking before the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium on March 24, President Zelensky said Ukraine needed “unlimited” military support to protect its people and cities from the Russian military campaign. . Zelensky said that Ukraine needs fighter jets, tanks, anti-ship weapons and improved air defense systems to repel the Russian military as the conflict enters its second month.

Although NATO is expected to increase support for Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance would not send troops or fighter jets to Ukraine because of the risk of a full-blown conflict with Russia.

Director of the Operations Department of the General Staff of the Russian Army Sergei Rudskoy announced on March 25 that since Russia began the operation military In Ukraine, Western countries have shipped more than 100 artillery units, nearly 900 mobile anti-aircraft missile systems and 3,800 anti-tank weapons to Kiev.

“We consider the transportation of Western weapons to Kiev a big mistake. This will prolong the conflict, increase the number of casualties and will not affect the outcome of the operation. Such aid trips are not to support Ukraine, but to drag the country into a military conflict that will drag on “until the last Ukrainian remains,” warned Mr. Rudskoy.

Russia has repeatedly criticized the US and its allies’ aid to Ukraine with weapons as a dangerous act to escalate the situation, and warned that convoys carrying foreign weapons to Kiev could become “legitimate targets”. ” of Russian forces.

The US and Western countries were initially quite cautious when only providing simple weapons and equipment such as helmets and bulletproof vests to Ukraine. However, currently, in the arms shipments to Ukraine, there are also drones capable of destroying Russian tanks and artillery at a distance of tens of kilometers.

Ukraine is facing an arms shortage due to Russia’s protracted military campaign. Last week, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba complained that the country’s military had only “two weeks of weapons to fight” before it ran out of anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles. President Zelensky also said that the Ukrainian army only had enough weapons for a week, while Russia continued to shell continuously on many fronts.