Selenskyj bei Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz

Selenskyj: Without US support, Ukraine has "Little chance to survive"

Three years after the beginning of the Russian attack war, the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj sees his country’s chances of survival without US military aid. The “difficult situation” in which Ukraine is known, said Selenskyj on Friday in the move of an interview with the broadcaster NBC, which is to be broadcast on Sunday in full length. “But without the support of the United States, we will hardly have a chance to survive.”

Selenskyj’s statements were made in the middle of increasing uncertainty about the US’s attitude to the Ukraine War. US President Donald Trump Trump had made a one-half hour phone call to the Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday without coordinating with the Europeans in advance. He then said that he had agreed with Putin an “immediate” start of negotiations on the future of Ukraine.

Selenskyj said on Friday in a speech at the Munich Security Conference that he was only ready for a meeting with Putin if Ukraine and its allies had agreed on a plan to end the Russian war of aggression against his country. There should be no decisions about his country without involving Ukraine.

Trump had repeatedly criticized his country’s military aid to Ukraine in the presidential campaign. In Kiev and Western allies, there is concern that Ukraine could be forced by the lack of US military aid to submit a large part of the territory occupied by Russia.

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