If the world does not help Ukraine stop the Russian Federation now, the aggressor will go to other countries in Eastern Europe, the Baltic states and beyond. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during a conversation with representatives of the Western media.
"If Ukraine does not stop all this and if the whole world does not unite around the determination of Ukraine, then there will be Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, and so they will go to the Berlin Wall," he said.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked those countries that support Ukraine and transfer weapons, although the delay in this issue costs "thousands of lives of Ukrainians".
The Head of State also noted that when he became President of Ukraine, he spoke from the very beginning about the need for security guarantees for our country.
According to him, alliances of states such as NATO or the EU must defend their alliances, otherwise they will cease to exist. Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that there should have been a decisive response to both the migration crisis caused by Belarus and the construction of Nord Stream 2, which has been an energy weapon and a means of pressure from Russia from the very beginning.
"I'm not saying we have to start a war, but the strength of an alliance is that it doesn't allow war. The world must show its strength without fighting," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
He added that the serious sanctions that have now finally been imposed on Russia have been the right measure.
However, according to the President of Ukraine, if the world had imposed preventive sanctions against the Russian Federation before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia would not have taken such a step.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the most important step now would be to close the sky over Ukraine, and he spoke about this with US President Joseph Biden and other foreign leaders.
"The constant bombing of non-military infrastructure kills civilians. Tonight there was a bombing of Kyiv and other cities. You saw what was happening in Kharkiv in recent days, Mariupol was shelled. Moreover, missiles, Iskanders and bombers are flying from the territory of both Belarus and Russia,” he said.
The President noted that if NATO countries cannot close the sky over Ukraine, they should at least provide it with military aircraft.
"We found all these planes, they have plenty. New planes. Are they very expensive, are they more expensive than human life? Well, we found planes from the Soviet era. Can we get them to repel the attacks? On our land, not on the territory of Russia, not on the territory of Belarus, but exclusively on Ukrainian land," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The President stated that "the whole world was late with Ukraine".
"And may them forgive me. Their people told them about it, not my people. You see what is happening in all squares of the world, how people come out and support. Because all these people are people,” the President summed up.
