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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky stressed in his evening address that his country lacks the necessary weapons to liberate besieged Mariupol, which is believed to be about to fall into the hands of Russian troops.
"If we had fighter jets and enough heavy armor, the necessary artillery, we could do it," he said."
"I'm sure we'll get almost everything we need. But not only time is wasted. Lives of Ukrainians are being lost. Lives that will not come back," he added."
The leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Daniyetsk, Denis Pusilin, said earlier yesterday that the sector of the port of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, where fierce fighting has been going on for weeks, had fallen into Russian hands.
The separatists have been trying for weeks to wrest Mariupol, an urban centre of strategic importance because of its location on the Sea of Azov, from the hands of Ukrainian forces.
Western officials have observed that Russian forces are gaining ground in urban clashes.
Nevertheless, the head of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny assured that the connection with the troops defending Mariupol has not been cut, denying reports that Ukrainian marines in the city have had no contact with the Ukrainian military leadership for the past two weeks.
[/P]Source: Proto Thema
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