- Ukraine’s president has warned the West that Vladimir Putin will not stop once he has conquered Ukraine, telling a U.S. television channel: ‘We will come first.’
- Sukhovetsky also took part in Russia’s military campaign in Syria.
- Sergiy Kyslytsya, speaking Monday at a U.N. Security Council meeting on the crisis, accused Russia of blocking numerous attempts by Ukrainian authorities to evacuate civilians through humanitarian corridors.
Ukraine’s president has threatened the West that once Vladimir Putin has taken Ukraine, he will not stop, telling a US television station: ‘We will come first.’ You’ll be in second place. Because the more this beast eats, the more he wants to eat’, as reported by Daily Mail.
Zone of freedom
Volodymyr Zelensky, 44, described Ukraine as a ‘zone of freedom’ that needed to be preserved.
‘And when the limits of rights and freedoms are being violated and stepped on, then you have to protect us,’ he said.
Tomorrow, it will be in Lithuania, then in Poland, then in Germany.
‘The United States is far away, but in recent days, I do feel that the United States are closer to us.’
The former actor, whose wartime leadership has impressed the world, on Monday emerged from his bunker in Kyiv and returned to the presidential palace, declaring: ‘I am here, I am not hiding, and I am not afraid of anyone.’
‘But it is war in our country, so every day is a hard day.’
Zelensky told the embattled country, on day 12 of the Russian invasion: ‘We are all in our places working, where we should be.’
‘We are all fighting, we are all contributing to our victory which will surely happen.’
And, in an interview from the palace with ABC News, Zelensky once again appealed to the United States to enforce a no-fly zone.
‘I told him that for us, the most important thing today is the security in the sky,’ Zelensky said.
‘But we are not doing this because we don’t have the sky.’
Shooting Russian planes
Muir asked if he was concerned about NATO forces shooting down Russian planes, and Zelensky replied: ‘What do you mean, to shoot down Russian planes?’
‘If the missile is flying – yesterday, for example, the missile hit the university in the city of Kharkiv and the dormitory.’
‘I think there is no any other answer, but to – yes, yes, they need to be shot down.’
He added that he was confident U.S. forces were up to the challenge.
Seated at his desk in the presidential palace, Zelensky said he felt Biden and the U.S. were able to do more.
Anti-tank missiles
The U.S. and its NATO allies have so far sent 17,000 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, as part of a $350 million aid package agreed on February 26 – day two of the conflict.
‘I’m sure that the president can do more.
Under Biden’s scheme, Poland would give Ukraine its MIG fighter jets, which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly.
Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, said on Sunday that the ‘green light’ had been given to the plan.
Poland, however, quickly said that they had not agreed on any plan.
Expected amphibious attack
‘We asked not only the United States, we asked many other countries – I’m not going to name them,’ he said.
The cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol have come under heavy shelling, with Odesa’s noted opera house now surrounded by fortifications ahead of an expected amphibious attack.
This courage is something that is unprecedented.
‘And Russian soldiers don’t even have that courage.’
‘The problem is that for one soldier of Ukraine, we have ten Russian soldiers.’
‘The real toll is likely to be significantly higher.’
Civilians killed
Horrifying video, shared widely on social media and broadcast on repeat on U.S. cable news, showed civilians being killed as they fled the Russian missiles.
‘Every minute, every hour, every day the same things are happening.’
Muir asked Zelensky whether Putin himself was a war criminal.
‘I think he is capable of stopping the war that he started.
‘And even if he doesn’t think that he was the one who started, he should know one important thing, a thing that cannot deny, that stopping the war is what he’s capable of.’
Seizing the invasion
‘We want talks between the president of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin since he is the one who makes the final decisions,’ Kuleba said on Ukrainian television.
A Russian general was killed in the fighting around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which Russian forces have been trying to seize since the invasion began, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said.
Another Russian general was killed earlier in the fighting.
A local officers’ organization in Russia confirmed the death in Ukraine of Maj.
Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of the Russian 7th Airborne Division.
He said Russia bombed and launched missiles at those cities and others like Kharkiv on Monday.
Cease-fire arrangements
Kyslytsya said Russia must stop violating cease-fire arrangements and allow safe passage through humanitarian corridors, end disinformation, and implement the U.N. General Assembly’s resolution calling for an immediate stop to the fighting.
Ukraine as a major wheat producer has been ‘one of the guarantors of global food security but this has been challenged by the war and ‘the implications at the global level will be catastrophic,’ he said.
Kyslytsya said Russian shelling had destroyed schools and hospitals and killed and wounded doctors.
He said that the country was running low on critical medical supplies.
He urged U.N. humanitarian agencies to respond quickly.
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Source: Daily Mail
