The Ukrainian president also denounces “unequal conditions” of combat at kyiv.
Le Monde with AFP
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked Thursday, March 24 to NATO countries to provide “unrestricted military aid” to his country, so that he could cope with the Russian army, that kyiv confronts. For the moment “under unequal conditions”.
“To save people and our cities, Ukraine needs unrestricted military assistance, because Russia uses, without restriction, all its arsenal against us,” said Zelensky in a video message Published on his Telegram account for the Heads of State and Government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, gathered in extraordinary summit in Brussels. “The Ukrainian army has been a resistant for a month in unequal conditions! I repeat the same thing for a month now,” he pointed out.
Chars and hunting planes
In particular, he renewed his requests for hunting planes and tanks, for, among others, “unlock” Maroupol, Berdiansk and Melitopol, cities southern Ukraine besieged or occupied by the Russian army. “You have thousands of hunting planes. But we have not yet given ourselves,” he launched. “You have at least 20,000 tanks. (…) Ukraine asked for one percent of all your tanks! Give them or sell them to us! But we still do not have a clear answer.” / P>
The Ukrainian president also accused Russia to use phosphorus bombs on Ukrainian targets. “This morning (…), there were Russian bombs with phosphorus. Adults were killed and children were killed again,” said Zelensky, relaying charges issued Thursday by the governor of the region of Louhansk (in the east) after bombing on the locality of Roubijne.
Another Louhansk local manager had already accused the Russian forces on March 13 to use phosphorus bombs. And an irpine manager, on the northwestern periphery of kyiv, had relayed Wednesday on the social networks of the similar charges about the facts that took place in his city.