“It will be a big challenge for us to get it all back afterwards. They are big sacrifices for us. Reclaiming territories means losing people. People, to be honest, are more important, but we know that [Krievijas diktators Vladimirs] Putin wants to completely destroy us,” the president said.
“All his messages are about the fact that he does not recognize Ukraine, Ukrainians, does not recognize that we exist. For him, we are a satellite of the Russian Federation,” Zelensky explained.
“Now we. Then Kazakhstan, then the Baltic States, then Poland. Then Germany, at least half of Germany. He will return, he will not forgive them the eighties, but then the nineties,” the president said.
“Don’t change his opinion. He must be changed. He must be replaced,” Zelensky summed up.
Ukraine is in dire need of US air defense systems, the president admitted.
Currently, all air defense systems that Ukraine has are brought from Europe.
The US has Patriot systems, and five of seven such systems “will protect our industrial platforms in Ukraine,” the president explained.
75 to 80% of US financial aid stays in the country because the weapons either belong to the US or are produced there, Zelensky said.
