Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticized delays in arms deliveries to his country. In view of an expected new offensive by Russian troops, this means “permission for Russia to take the lives of Ukrainians,” Zelenskyj said in his daily video address on Monday night.
He did not name any countries. However, there had recently been a dispute in the traffic light coalition in Germany about the delivery of heavy weapons. Politicians from the Greens and FDP had accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) of hesitation. Military experts assume that Ukraine will need significantly more heavy weapons in the east of the country to withstand attacks.
Zelenskyy warned that the Russian military is preparing an offensive in the Donbass industrial region in eastern Ukraine in the near future.
Just as Russian troops are destroying Mariupol, they also want to raze other cities and towns in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions
, he said. In the port city of Mariupol, which has been under siege for weeks, it is assumed that thousands of residents have been killed.