Zelenskyy announces list of weapons needed to beat Russia
IRYNA BALACHUK - WEDNESDAY, 13 APRIL, 2022, 17:22
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced a list of the heavy weapons Ukraine needs to stop Russia.
Source: Video Address by Zelenskyy
According to Zelenskyy: "To continue to heroically defend the world from Russian aggression, Ukraine needs a specific list of weapons. I appeal to citizens around the world to help convey to your governments, presidential administrations and leaders of your countries the real needs of Ukraine to help stop the war.
Give Ukraine weapons now to defeat this evil together".
Details: Ukraine urgently needs heavy artillery, heavyarmoured vehicles, air defence systems and aircraft:
- artillery systems (155 mm calibre) and ammunition;
- artillery shells (152 mm calibre), as many as possible;
- multiple rocket launchers: Grad, Uragan or American M142 HIMARS MLRSs;
- armoured vehicles (armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, etc.);
- tanks (T-72, American or German equivalents);
- air defence systems (S-300, "Buk" anti-aircraft missile system or similar modern western air defence systems);
- combat aircraft.
Zelenskyy called on the whole world to "unite and help us in the fight against this brutal aggression".
"Russia has no plans to stop at Ukraine. Putin's propaganda machine openly declares that Europe is the "next logical target" after Ukraine. So either the West will help Ukraine stop Putin now or Putin will continue to expand his Russian empire, killing thousands of women and children in the process. He has already done this in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Bucha and other Ukrainian cities", the President of Ukraine concluded.
