Warsaw:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned throughout a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday that Poland would assist kind a coalition of Western powers to provide warplanes to Ukraine, because it did with battle tanks earlier this yr.
Ukraine, which hopes to launch a counteroffensive within the coming weeks or months, needs to safe superior fighter jets such because the U.S. F-16 from the West to assist struggle again Russian invaders and defend itself from air strikes.
Warsaw is a detailed ally of Kyiv and helped galvanise help within the West to provide predominant battle tanks to Ukraine as a part of a coalition of powers, a transfer that originally hit a diplomatic deadlock that was then overcome.
“Simply as your (Polish) management proved itself within the tank coalition, I imagine that it’ll present itself within the planes coalition,” Zelenskiy mentioned in a speech on a sq. in Warsaw.
The Ukrainian chief mentioned Russia wouldn’t defeat Europe whereas Ukraine and Poland have been working intently collectively.
“Poland with you, shoulder to shoulder, we are going to set up freedom in Europe without end, tyranny will lose in historical past when it loses in Ukraine,” he mentioned.
He warned in opposition to the hazard of solidarity fading for Ukraine and mentioned that artillery and tanks ought to be supplied when the battle on the entrance traces required it.
“As a result of it is a battle for freedom and it’s unimaginable to win partially,” he mentioned.
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