With his army struggling to fend off fierce Russian advances all across the front, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the United States and Europe to do more to defend his nation, dismissing fears of nuclear escalation and proposing that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.

Mr. Zelensky said he had also appealed to senior U.S. officials to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles and other weaponry at military targets inside Russia — a tactic the United States continues to oppose. The inability to do so, he insisted, gave Russia a “huge advantage” in cross-border warfare that it is exploiting with assaults in Ukraine’s northeast.

His comments, made in an interview on Monday with The New York Times in central Kyiv, were among his most full-throated appeals yet to the United States and its NATO allies for more help. Over 50 minutes at the ornate House With Chimeras in the presidential offices, he spoke with a mix of frustration and bewilderment at the West’s reluctance to take bolder steps to ensure that Ukraine prevails.

MBFC
Archive

  • @Pixlbabble
    link
    English
    -216 months ago

    Sorry I’m not pro war. Talk it out.

    • @Pilferjinx
      link
      English
      186 months ago

      “Sir, would you politely stop invading us and trying to wipe out the concept of us Ukrainians?”

    • @TimeNaan
      link
      English
      96 months ago

      Funny thing to say to people who were invaded by a genocidal dictatorship

      • @TubularTittyFrog
        link
        English
        4
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        don’t you understand, not letting yourself be genocided is violence.

        and clearly russia is only doing genocide because tehy were FORCED. not like those bad israelis.