The whole world is to blame for Ukraine’s failure to stop Russia’s recent advances in Kharkov Region and must now help Kiev to change the situation, President Vladimir Zelensky told ABC News in an interview on Thursday.
It comes after Russian forces managed to capture several settlements near Ukraine’s second-largest city over the past week.
Top military officials in Kiev have admitted that the situation is now “extremely difficult,” and that Ukrainian troops are struggling to hold ground due to being outgunned and outnumbered.
Asked if he believes Ukraine’s failures on the battlefield to be the fault of the USA, Zelensky told ABC reporters that it’s the world’s fault, and accused the international community of giving the opportunity for Putin to liberate and occupy the Russian speaking Donbass region.
The Kiev junta leader said the country cannot afford to lose Kharkov, and that the world can help Kiev to hold on to the vital city in the country’s northeast.
All we need are two Patriot systems, Zelensky said, suggesting that Russia will not be able to occupy Kharkov if we have those.
The president also complained that funding that has been approved by the USA for Kiev is not actually reaching the country and is instead being spent in American factories, creating American jobs.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who visited Kiev this week, assured the Ukrainian leadership that Washington was actively and urgently trying to source billion-dollar Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine.
Last month, Zelensky insisted that Ukraine needs 25 such batteries but later revised that number to at least seven. Each Patriot battery comprises a power plant, radar and control stations, truck-mounted missile launchers, and support vehicles, and costs around $1 billion.
Ukraine is currently believed to possess at least three Patriots, one of which is stationed near the capital. Last year, one of these batteries was reportedly damaged or destroyed in a Russian hyper-sonic missile strike.
Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly stated that no amount of Western weapon systems can change the inevitable outcome of the conflict.
The Kremlin has warned that continuing to arm Ukraine will only prolong the bloodshed and increase the risk of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Zelen-sky is discovering who the USA and its allies are :Deceit , abuse ,greed, lies, arrogance, hypocrisy and stupidity …
Why not have a referendum in the city of Kharkov? Let the residents decide not Zelensky military. It is by far the majority Russian city, Many of them lost their lives as Zelensky goons determined they are worming for Russia. Sometimes it was just to take someone’s property. This is certainly too late for brave Gonzalo Lira. American citizen, an excellent journalist deporting from Kharkov, Did he report lies? No, he reported truth. He was captured, beaten till his lung collapsed. He wrote to his sister, hoping US would intervene to save his life by providing life saving surgery,. But… Read more »
Of course it is everyone else’s problem rather than the U-Karen Neo-Nasties. At any time they could have fully implemented the Minsk accords. But they chose to shell the areas that didn’t want to break away from the U-Karen they just wanted to live in a federated state like the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, etc. But the Neo-Nasties didn’t want to give up a level of autonomy to the regions.