Zelensky: Western aid is not enough even for 4 brigades of the Ukrainian army
In an ierview with CNN, Zelensky said that Ukraine has not received enough military aid from foreign partners to equip “even four of the 14 brigades” of the army.
According to Isna, Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky did not specify exactly what these 14 army brigades should be ready for or where they should be deployed.
In the coinuation of his ierview with CNN, the Preside of Ukraine used other examples to emphasize that Western aid to Ukraine is not enough to preve Russian attacks on Ukraine.
He also emphasized that the delivery of aid shipmes will be done slowly after the commitme of the partners.
The preside of Ukraine coinued his ierview and said: “Everyone should understand what we we through and what we did during this eight-moh break before the positive decision of the US Congress to provide a $61 billion aid package last April.” “We used everything we could.”
“We transferred what we had in the warehouses and what the reserve brigades had for use, and now we need help to fight,” Zelenskiy added.
The Ukrainian preside also defended the decision of the Ukrainian military command to launch the Kursk offensive in Russia in August to divert Russian forces instead of keeping Ukrainian forces east of Pokrovsk.
Zelensky further said that it doesn’t matter how many brigades defend the east, if “half of them are not equipped, this situation is not worth at all. Ukrainian forces lack armored vehicles and artillery shells, because Russian forces fire 12 times more bullets than Ukrainian forces.
In a previous ierview with Bloomberg on July 4, the Preside of Ukraine said that 14 brigades in the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not yet been equipped with the necessary weapons that the US Congress had previously voted to send to Ukraine, and that the delivery of these equipme is being done slowly.
He poied out that these brigades, if properly equipped, can be used for couer-attacking Ukraine.
In an ierview with the BBC, Zelensky said Russia was dropping 4,000 guided aerial bombs a moh in eastern Ukraine, destroying 80 perce of the coury’s energy infrastructure, as the United States discussed allowing Ukraine to attack airfields deep in the coury. Russian soil is doubtful; Where Russian fighters are stationed.
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