Published March 30, 2024
Ukrainian forces would have to cede further territory to Russia if US military aid does not arrive soon, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, in his latest appeal to Congress to pass a multibillion-dollar package.
President Joe Biden’s administration is struggling to push a $95 billion international aid package – which includes $60 billion for Ukraine – through the House of Representatives more than month since it was passed in the Senate.
Zelensky warned that the lack of aid was urgent, and could endanger Ukraine’s major cities.
“If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-millimeter artillery rounds,” he told The Washington Post during a recent interview published Friday. “It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps.”
He said Kyiv would be forced to do less and prioritize resources, and the cut could have consequences.
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Ukrainian service members fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) towards the Russian troops near a front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on March 27. Sofiia Gatilova/Reuters
Published March 29, 2024
President Joe Biden’s administration is struggling to push a $95 billion international aid package – which includes $60 billion for Ukraine – through the House of Representatives more than month since it was passed in the Senate.
Zelensky warned that the lack of aid was urgent, and could endanger Ukraine’s major cities.
“If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-millimeter artillery rounds,” he told The Washington Post during a recent interview published Friday. “It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps.”
He said Kyiv would be forced to do less and prioritize resources, and the cut could have consequences.
“If you need 8,000 rounds a day to defend the front line, but you only have, for example, 2,000 rounds, you have to do less,” he explained, saying that the solution may entail shortening the front line.
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RELATED: Zelensky says without US aid, Ukraine forces will have to retreat
Published March 30, 2024
- Ukraine was making up for shortages of missiles with home-produced weaponry and air defense systems, “but it is not enough,” Zelensky told Washington Post
- US military aid for Ukraine had been stalled in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives
KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published on Friday that if Ukraine does not get promised US military aid blocked by disputes in Congress, its forces will have to retreat “in small steps.”
“If there is no US support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-milimeter artillery rounds,” Zelensky told the Washington Post.
“It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps,” he said. “We are trying to find some way not to retreat.”
Shortages of munitions, he said, meant “you have to do with less. How? Of course, to go back. Make the front line shorter. If it breaks, the Russians could go to the big cities.”
Democratic President Joe Biden has urged the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives to endorse the military and financial aid package, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has held up the matter for months, citing domestic priorities.
Zelensky told Johnson in a telephone conversation on Thursday that approval of the package was vital.
Russian forces captured the eastern town of Avdiivka last month and have made small gains since, but the front lines have changed little in months.
