Ukraine desperate for supplies as Russia advances on invasion’s 2-year anniversary
Ukraine is vulnerable: Frustration over lagging U.S. military aid is written on the crumbling walls near Ukraine’s front line.
“We are not asking too much,” reads the graffiti. “We just need artillery shells and aviation. Rest we do ourselves. Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
“During the last two years I got used to keeping my emotions inside, but sometimes you just want to scream,” Serhiy Chaus, who wears a bulletproof vest with a “Ukrainian patriot” patch on it.
Zelenskyy said Monday the situation was “extremely difficult in several parts of the front line,” where he said Russian troops have amassed “maximum reserves.”
“They are taking advantage of the delays in aid to Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said. “There is a deficit of artillery. There is a need for front-line air defense and for a longer range of our weapons.”
The U.S. and the world gave Ukraine hope that it could win this fight, Chaus, the mayor of Chasiv Yar, said, but at one of its most critical moments, they are letting it down.
“We just don’t understand how one can at first say, ‘We are your support, you can lean on our shoulder,’ but now we are losing that shoulder, that shoulder of support,” he said. “We don’t understand why it’s happening this way, why no one understands us anymore. The war is not over here, the war goes on and it’s becoming bigger and harder.”
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