Zelensky puts pressure on NATO for air defence systems following Russian intensive attacks

Ukraine's president has used a speech at the NATO summit in Turkey to ask Allies to hand over air defence systems Kiev urgently needs to protect it from rising Russian attacks.
“We are capable of doing everything else ourselves, but when it comes to air protection, we need our partners' commitment”, Volodyr Zelensky said on Tuesday morning, the BBC reported.
Zelensky's call for help sounds with additional intensity after the Russian missiles fell on the Ukrainian capital twice in less than a week, falling into apartment blocks and killing more than 50 civilians.
The summit in Ankara will also be a chance for Zelensky to hold an important meeting with Donald Trump and highlight his argument that attacks “brutal” of Russia are a show of weakness, not of force, and that Vladimir Putin should be forced to talk towards a “dinious peace”.
Recent attacks on Ukraine come as it has stepped up its attacks with long-range fears against Russia, hitting oil refinerys and military targets there and causing significant fuel shortages and power cuts.
Underscoring this threat, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyan said antiaircraft protections seized “the majority” of the 430 flightless drones issued by Ukraine to the capital at night. The damage rate was not immediately clear.
Russian accounts in social media are full of videos of people waiting in line for hours to buy gasoline and struggle for the little they are allowed to do.
Speaking before summit, Secretary General NATO, Mark Rutte, has asked the member states of “commit to” and make sure Ukraine gets what it needs “to defend its sovereignty”.
He underlined that Kiev was “changing the dynamics on the battlefield”, referring to efforts to stop Russian ground troops to the east.
This has to do with recent attacks on fears, which evidently give Ukraine an advantage.
This month's phrase here is “potential designer”.
But as the war in heaven intensified, Russia's ballistic missiles are causing Kiev real problems.
Ukraine's air force issues a daily count of weapons Moscow issues along with the number seized.
On Monday, almost all fears were successfully blocked, but the level of missile failure was apparent.
Ukraine didn't stop any ballistic missiles in that attack.
It is not easy: they fly several thousand miles per hour and simply do not have enough Patriot air defence missiles produced in the US in Ukraine to counter them.
The “is simply absurd that, in today's world, production has not yet escalated to the level needed to protect people from ballistic terror”, Zelensky said, expressing his disappointment at a video address Monday. /Periscope











