“We are determined to maintain our support for Ukraine and work very closely with Congress on this.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this after a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky , while the green light for new military aid is being discussed in the US Congress. “I know our European colleagues will do the same,” Blinken added.
«We must achieve air superiority for Ukraine like we achieved in the Black Sea . We can do it, the partners know what we need and what quantities. It would allow progress on the ground. Two days ago we proved that we can hit Russian planes that had not been shot down so far", he said in his speech at the Forum.
«We need – added the leader of Kiev – Putin to lose and we can do it. This year must be decisive."
Zelensky underlined that the Russian leader «will never be satisfied with a frozen conflict. «I remind you that after 2014 there was an attempt to freeze the war in Donbass. There were influential guarantors, including the Chancellor of Germany and the President of France. But Putin is a predator not satisfied with frozen products. We have to defend ourselves, defend our children and our wives and we can beat him on the ground, we have proven it."
As mentioned, Zelensky urges the US and EU states to provide new military supplies. In this regard, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, warned that the time for approval of an agreement on financing aid to Ukraine by the US Congress is almost over . But Kuleba himself reiterated that Ukraine will not surrender in any way. “Even if we run out of weapons, we will fight with shovels, because for Ukraine the existence of the nation is at stake,” he said in an interview with ABC News.
Kuleba also said that more money for Ukraine could potentially help avoid a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, in which US troops would be forced to
intervene.
On the risk of a direct clash between NATO and Russia, yesterday the German news site Bild reported on a "classified" file from the German authorities, which hypothesizes an extension of the conflict in Ukraine with a "direct" attack by Moscow's troops on NATO .
In the document, which is said to be in the hands of the Berlin Ministry of Defense, «month by month and with a precise location, the Russian and Western actions are described which will culminate in the deployment of hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers and the imminent outbreak of war in the summer of 2025."
However, Moscow's response was ready. “Bild does not hesitate to write hoaxes, so I would prefer not to comment,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
(Unioneonline/lf)