Ukraine and its Western allies are in talks to speed up deliveries of long-range missiles and military aircraft.
Adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Saturday that Ukraine and its Western allies are in talks to speed up the delivery of long-range missiles and military aircraft.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said today that Ukraine’s allies in the West “understand how the war plays out” and the need to provide aircraft capable of providing cover for the armored fighting vehicles that the United States and Germany promised at the outset. Of the month.
However, speaking to the Freedom online video channel, Podolyak noted that some of Ukraine’s Western partners maintain a “conservative” attitude towards arms deliveries, “due to fear of changes in the international architecture.” Russia and North Korea have accused the West of prolonging and taking a direct role in the war by sending kyiv increasingly sophisticated weapons.
“We need to work on it. We must show (our partners) the real picture of this war,” Podolyak said, without naming specific countries. “We should talk reasonably and say, for example: ‘This and this will reduce deaths and infrastructure costs. This will reduce the threats to the security of the European continent, this will keep the war localized.’ And we are doing it.”
The United States and Germany agreed on Wednesday to send advanced tanks with Ukraine along with promised Bradley and Marder vehicles, a move that drew criticism from EU member Hungary’s prime minister.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that Western countries providing arms and money to help Ukraine in its war with Russia “became active participants in the conflict.” Orban has refused to send weapons to neighboring Ukraine and has tried to block EU funds for military aid.
The Russian Defense Ministry said today that Ukrainian forces used US-made HIMARS rockets to attack a hospital in the eastern Ukrainian city of Novoaidar, killing 14 people.
Novoaidar is located in the Lugansk province, which is almost entirely under the control of Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the hospital was a deliberate target.
Source: Observadora
