"Russia Will Continue to Feel Impunity": Zelenskyi Urged West to Provide Ukraine with Air Defence Systems

Just during the stay of the President of the European Commission in Ukraine, the Russian army launched new missile attacks on Kryvyi Rih, on the Kirovohrad region, as President Zelenskyi said during his traditional daily address on September 15th.

"In both cases - on hydrotechnical structures. The purpose of these strikes is completely clear. These are attacks on people, on the normality of life in Ukraine. The terrorist state is trying to show that it can allegedly compensate with such strikes for the cowardice and incompetence of its military, for the failure of its efforts to avoid sanctions and economic isolation", the President noted.

According to the President, in response, Ukraine must show that there will always be a tough and principled reaction to every manifestation of Russian terror. That is why the eighth EU sanctions package is needed.

"We talked about it with Mrs. Ursula. A principled decision by the United States of America regarding the terrorist state, the legal recognition of this status is also needed, and we discussed this, by the way, recently during the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kyiv. We also discuss this issue during contacts with congressmen", Zelenskyi noted.

He also stressed the importance and air defence and confirmed that there were some arrangements with certain countries, while Ukrainian diplomats continued to work with others.

" I want to emphasize that without providing us with a sufficient number of sufficiently effective air defense systems that will protect the Ukrainian skies, Russia will continue to feel impunity and provoke new local and global crises. Therefore, protecting Ukraine from Russian missiles is truly a basic element of global security”, the President explained.

According to him, supporting Ukraine with weapons, ammunition and finances is crucial for peace in Europe.

"The better support we have, the sooner this war will end. I talked about it with the representatives of the leading think tanks of Poland, Britain, France and the US who arrived in Kyiv. Real protection of freedom and common values of the free world is possible now only as a result of Ukraine's victory in this war", Zelenskyi summarized.

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