Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushes for Western aid to fight Russian ‘army of about 2 million people’
“We have this appeal from Ukrainian leadership to help them to defend [Ukraine] in case Russia will come again with a big, big force ... this is what we will most probably see in the springtime,” a senior European official told the Washington Examiner.
“Now we need even greater mobilization — in the whole free world,” Zelensky said Friday in an address to Lithuania's parliament. “We need urgent decisions by our entire anti-war coalition. New defensive decisions that will give Ukrainian warriors the opportunity to drive the Russian army out of our land. And this concerns, first of all, modern tanks and effective artillery.”
Polish President Andrzej Duda joined the throng of milestone announcements with his own “decision to contribute a first package of tanks, a company of Leopard tanks” produced originally in Germany. Poland, like Ukraine, labored under Moscow’s oppression during the Cold War and inherited an arsenal of Soviet-style main battle tanks, which Duda’s government has been transferring to Ukrainian forces from the earliest months of the conflict.
“NATO allies are sending what they can, but we see from all the overall information, what is happening in the front, that Russia can send more troops, more soldiers — more, just, people, to the front,” the first senior European official said. “And this is, for Ukrainians, in the long run, it is really a bad option.”
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