Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged allies to supply Ukraine with military aircraft, as he believes that the tanks sent are not enough.
While Moscow continues to threaten Western countries for allowing tank supplies to Ukraine, the Ukrainian president has already moved on to the “next step” and is asking for warplanes to be sent to fight in his country, a Spanish newspaper reported. ABC.
At the beginning of the war, the United States of America was careful about what weapons it should send to support Ukraine in the conflict, lest it be accused of direct participation in the war. The current paradigm is completely different, and US President Joe Biden, having authorized the sending of tanks to the conflict in Eastern Europe, is already allowing the possibility of sending military aircraft to support Ukrainian troops.
Zelensky thanked his allies on Wednesday evening for the decision by Germany and the United States to send Leopard and Abrams tanks to help the Ukrainian army, respectively, and for allowing other countries to send military equipment as well.
But he immediately remembered that he had already asked NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for additional combat vehicles. “We need to deliver a batch of military aircraft to Ukraine,” the Ukrainian president said. “This is a dream and a challenge,” he added.