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General Category => World News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 17, 2024, 05:11:58 pm
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Zelensky Demands More Weapons From West, Invites Trump to Visit ‘Front Line’
Breitbart London 17 Feb 2024
MUNICH (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned allies Saturday that an “artificial deficit” of weapons for his country risks giving Russia breathing space, hours after his military chief said he was withdrawing troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka.
Zelenskyy spoke to the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of security and foreign policy officials. Ukraine is back on the defensive against Russia in the nearly 2-year-old war, hindered by low ammunition supplies and a shortage of personnel.
“Ukrainians have proven that we can force Russia to retreat,” he said. “We can get our land back, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin can lose, and this has already happened more than once on the battlefield.”
“Our actions are limited only by … our strength,” he added, pointing to the situation in Avdiivka. Ukrainian commander Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said early Saturday that he was withdrawing troops from the city, where outnumbered defenders battled a Russian assault for four months, to avoid encirclement and save soldiers’ lives.
“Dear friends, unfortunately keeping Ukraine in the artificial deficit of weapons, particularly in deficit of artillery and long-range capabilities, allows Putin to adapt to the current intensity of the war,” Zelenskyy said. “The self-weakening of democracy over time undermines our joint results.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/17/zelensky-demands-more-weapons-from-west-invites-trump-to-visit-front-line/
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Didn't see this coming.
Zellinsky giving Trump an Ukranian photo-op, is going to piss Biden off something fierce.
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I don't believe the word 'demand' was anywhere in Zelenskiy's statements. But I did see where Germany and France are ponying up more weapons for Ukraine. Still waiting to see the first M-1 on the front line. It has been over a year.
Ukraine doesn't need cash. They need weapons. And $60 billion could buy a heck of a lot of weapons. But I don't trust Biden to deliver. His track record on this is horrendous.
Ukraine is staying alive in this war because of help from their European allies, and from private fundraising donations for drones, electronic equipment, field gear, and medical equipment. They aren't relying on hi-tech state-of-the-art missiles to defeat Russia. They are building small automated boats from scratch and filling them with explosives and enough fuel to reach Russian naval targets. They are using $100 drones fitted with 4kg explosive charges to hit Russian positions from the air. The innovation coming out of the Ukrainian military is stunning. They are doing remarkably well in a new age of warfare while the US pisses away untold billions as part of the old age graft network.
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Did Zelensky use any form of the word "Demand"? Or was that Breitbart London and Breitbart.com's tendentious, question-begging, choice of words?