BB.lv: Ukraine needs Western weapons for survival

Ukraine does not receive from Western partners the weapons necessary for its survival, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Tuesday, April 9, in Kharkov, where he gave an interview to the German tabloid Bild, as well as other publications of the Axel Springer concern. According to Zelensky, “our partners have certain weapons that we need today to survive. And I just don’t understand why we don’t get these weapons.”

Zelensky continues to hope for deliveries of TAURUS long-range cruise missiles from Germany. Zelensky attributes the fact that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as the German Bundestag, are rejecting such supplies to the fact that Germany fears nuclear threats from Vladimir Putin. “As far as I understand, the Chancellor says that Germany is not a nuclear power, but (TAURUS missiles – Ed.) is the strongest weapons system in Germany,” the President of Ukraine noted.

In addition, Zelensky remains hopeful that the United States will nevertheless allocate a multibillion-dollar package of military assistance, which for a long time has not received the necessary approval in the American Congress. Although Russia has an advantage in weapons and military numbers, “the united West has modern weapons systems,” which might allow Ukraine to defeat the Russian aggressor, Zelensky emphasized in an interview with Bild.

Trump may come to Ukraine

In the near future, according to Zelensky, former US President Donald Trump, who hopes to be re-elected once more in the presidential elections in November, may visit Ukraine. As the President of Ukraine said, Trump agreed to his invitation to visit Ukraine, but the exact date of his visit has not yet been set.

Zelensky also said that even if Ukraine faces defeat in the war, he will not leave it. “I cannot leave my country. Under no circumstances,” he said.

A day earlier, during a video conference on the United24 platform, Vladimir Zelensky warned regarding the possibility of Ukraine’s defeat in a defensive war once morest Russia if the US Congress does not approve the allocation of a military aid package to Kyiv. The adoption of the new package is being blocked by representatives of the Republican Party, who may be influenced by Donald Trump.