Ukraine can carry out limited offensive operations, and more weapons are needed to push out the Russian occupiers. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with The Washington Post, UNN reports.
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Zelenskiy said that until Ukraine knows that it retains US support, "we will stay where we are in the east." The president, according to the newspaper, said Ukraine might conduct limited offensive operations, but "to push them (Russians - ed.) out, we need more weapons."
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"We lost half a year" while Congress bickered, he said. "We can’t waste time anymore. Ukraine can’t be a political issue between the parties," Zelenskiy said.
He said critics of aid for Ukraine didn’t understand the stakes in the war.
"If Ukraine falls, Putin will divide the world" into Russia’s friends and enemies, Zelenskiy said.
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Asked whether Zelenskyy believes US President Joe Biden is too cautious in arms deliveries, as critics sometimes claim, Zelenskyy replied: "I think he’s cautious about nuclear attack from Russia."
In his opinion, Vladimir Putin wouldn’t risk a nuclear exchange, but he conceded that the Russian leader is unpredictable: "He’s crazy. There is nobody in the world who can tell you 100 percent what he will do. That’s why Biden is cautious."