Zelensky demands more weapons for war from Russia

Kiev, October 16 (EFE).- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called Victory Plan calls on allies to provide sufficient weapons and political decisions to launch additional operations against Russian territory and calls on the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy Makes a request. And Germany will deploy non-nuclear strategic weapons to Ukraine to deter Russia.

“Ukraine has proposed to deploy a non-nuclear strategic deterrence package on its territory. This will be enough to protect Ukraine from any military threat from Russia,” President Zelensky told parliament this Wednesday in a speech in which he revealed details of his plan for the first time.

The Ukrainian president did not specify when he expected allies to deploy these systems, although he said the measure, which has already been notified to the countries concerned, would allow Russia to “bring a fair end to the war.” to enter into the negotiation process. ,

Zelensky said this point of the plan – which includes one of the document’s three secret requests – would also be sent to other countries with the capacity to meet this Ukrainian demand.

Kiev calls for active participation of Romania and Poland

The document includes a list of weapons necessary to strengthen the Ukrainian position and bring the war to Russia, in order to avoid the creation of a “security zone” for enemy troops in Ukraine and to prevent Russian public opinion from accepting the consequences of the war. Could “feel”. And will increase its pressure on the Kremlin.

The clause also calls on Kiev’s partners to lift restrictions on the use of long-range weapons supplied by them against targets located within the Russian Federation and to send adequate anti-aircraft defenses to protect themselves with guarantees from Russian attacks. Says.

The “Victory Plan” is made up of five points and also requests that Kiev’s allies provide intelligence to Russia “in real time” in order to weaken Russian combat capability.

Kiev also requests that Ukraine’s neighboring European countries, i.e. Romania and Poland, participate from their territory in shooting down Russian drones and missiles that come over their airspace inside Ukraine.

An “illusive” plan for the Kremlin

The Kremlin today considered the victory plan presented by Zelensky “illusory”, and assured that to achieve peace in Ukraine, Kiev must first “come to its senses.”

“A confusing peace plan has been discussed for several weeks. Most likely, this is the same American plan to fight with us to the last Ukrainian, which Zelensky hid and called a ‘peace plan,'” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his daily press conference.

According to the spokesperson, for peace Kiev must “be conscious and understand the reasons that led to the conflict in Ukraine.”

“There may be another plan, actually peaceful, which requires Kiev to understand that the policy it is implementing has no future,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recently assured that he will not enter peace talks with Kiev as long as Ukrainian troops remain in the Kursk border area, which they entered on August 6.

Rutte says he doesn’t support Zelensky’s entire plan

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte admitted this Wednesday that he cannot say that he supports everything included in the “Victory Plan” elaborated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stem Russian aggression, but he reassured Kiev of the alliance’s Reiterated strong support.

“Of course, this is a strong signal from Zelensky and his team that they have drawn up this plan, that they are now moving forward with it. This does not mean that I can say that I support the entire plan. It will be a little difficult,” he announced at a news conference ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.

However, he stressed that allies will continue to strongly support Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin “does not get his way.”