“We aren’t attacking Russia and we don’t plan to assault it,” Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky stated
Kyiv:
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky known as on the West on Thursday to extend army support to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the remainder of Europe in any other case.
“Should you shouldn’t have the facility to shut the skies, then give me planes!” Zelensky informed a press convention. “If we aren’t any extra then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia can be subsequent,” he stated, including: “Consider me.”
He known as for direct talks with Russian chief Vladimir Putin, saying it was “the one approach to cease this conflict.”
“We aren’t attacking Russia and we don’t plan to assault it. What would you like from us? Depart our land,” he stated, addressing Putin.
“Sit down with me. Simply not 30 metres away like with (French President Emmanuel Macron),” the Ukrainian chief stated, referring to Putin receiving world leaders at a now well-known enormously lengthy desk.
Zelensky — who simply weeks in the past sought to calm Ukrainians over US allegations that Russia was planning to invade his nation — stated: “No one thought that within the trendy world a person can behave like a beast.”
Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine final week.
Russia says it isn’t concentrating on civilian areas regardless of widespread proof in any other case.
Ukraine on Wednesday stated Russian planes hit a college, killing 9 individuals, within the northern metropolis of Chernihiv.
Kyiv says greater than 350 civilians have been killed since Putin launched the invasion.
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