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Zelensky: "Threat to state is at maximum level"

09 March 2022 16:52 (UTC +04:00)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the threat to his country is "at maximum level" but affirmed the scale of its response is also at its highest, APA reports citing CNN.

As the war hits the two-week mark and millions of civilians flee the country, Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army would be recharged by weapons and supplies taken from Russians in combat.

Zelensky also made an appeal to Russian soldiers, speaking in Russian: "Leave."

"Close the skies": Zelensky repeated his global call to "send us the planes" in order to avoid "a massive humanitarian catastrophe."

The Pentagon dismissed Poland's proposal to transfer their Mig-29 fighter jets to the United States for delivery to Ukraine as not "tenable."

The Ukrainian President cited Russia's use of rockets and helicopters against civilians, cities and infrastructure.

The US has agreed to send two Patriot missile batteries to Poland as a "defensive deployment," a spokesman for US European Command said Tuesday, but this is strictly to counter any potential threat to US and NATO allies and will not support "offensive operations."

Zelensky added: “Listen, we are at war. We have no time for this media, for the signals ... this is not a game of ping pong. This is about human life. We ask once again: make your decision quickly. Don't transfer responsibility to one another. Send us the planes."