In an interview with the American network CNN broadcast today, he attacked the favorite in the Republican primaries for the November presidential elections, after statements in which Trump calls aid to Ukraine a “waste” and tried to link its continuity with a reinforcement of policies to stop the entry of migrants across the border with Mexico.
Zelensky’s statements come at a time when the US president Joe Biden fight to get Republican legislators in the House of Representatives authorize a disbursement of 61,000 million dollars additional to Ukraine.
Zelensky questioned Donald Trump for being on Putin’s side
Zelensky He said he doesn’t think Trump “understands” Putin despite having met with the Russian leader during his mandate. “I think that donald trump “he doesn’t know Putin,” he said. Zelensky, He added: “I don’t think he understands that Putin will never stop.”
The Ukrainian leader said that he “cannot understand how Donald Trump can be on Putin’s side,” something he found “incredible.”
Trump’s position regarding Ukraine was crystallized days ago in expressions of the Republican Senator JD Vancewho at the Munich Security Conference assessed that US aid “is not going to fundamentally change the reality on the battlefield.”
In response, Zelensky invited Vance, a Trump ally, to visit the front lines. “You will understand that millions of people will be killed” without new American aid, the Ukrainian president replied.
Two years into the war, Russia advances and Ukraine rations ammunition
Recently Russia took over the city Avdiivka, in the eastern region of Donetsk, and Ukrainian troops claimed they were forced to ration ammunition due to shortages.
After two years of war, Ukraine faces increasing attrition: the internal fighting of its allies was depleting its supplies and its troops face a shortage of artillery shells to defend the front line.
In this scenario, in statements in kyiv, Zelensky said that Ukraine received only 30% of the million artillery shells that the European Union (EU) promised Send him to help his troops fight against the Russian invasion.
“Of the million projectiles that the European Union (EU) promised us, not even 50% arrived, unfortunately only 30% were delivered,” declared Zelensky. at a press conference together with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Nikolai Denkov, the AFP news agency reported.
The EU committed last year to send Ukraine one million artillery shells before the end of March 2024, but in January it acknowledged that it will only be able to deliver half of that.
Ukraine urged the EU this month to urgently deliver the promised supplies, and this weekend, when the second anniversary of the start of the war was marked, Ukrainian leaders regretted delays in the arrival of Western military material and its consequences.
Source: Ambito
