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Volodymyr Zelensky
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned urgently of the consequences of a further delay in American military aid. "If there is no US support, that means we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no electronic warfare jammers, no 155-millimeter artillery shells," he said in an interview with the American newspaper "Washington Post." «. "That means that we are withdrawing, step by step, in small steps."
Zelensky said they had already lost half a year while the American Congress argued over the aid package. »We can't waste any more time. Ukraine must not be a political issue between the parties. The Ukrainian president said that critics of aid to Ukraine do not understand what is at stake. "If Ukraine falls, Putin will divide the world into Russia's friends and enemies," warned Zelensky.
As long as Congress does not agree on another, urgently needed aid package, his military will have no planning security, complained the Ukrainian president. "If you need 8,000 rounds a day to defend the front line, but only have 2,000 rounds available, you have to do less," Zelensky explained. The front line must be shortened. "If it collapses, the Russians could go to the big cities," warned the Ukrainian president. Only with sufficient weapons and ammunition could the front be stabilized and a new counteroffensive begin.
The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, promised before the Easter recess that Congress would take up the Ukraine issue again in early April.
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