Zach Crawford
(ANSA) – ROME, Apr 3 – “Russian forces want to seize the Donbass and southern Ukraine. We understand that the enemy has reserves to increase pressure in the east. What is our goal? Protect our freedom, our land and our people.” This is what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address.
“We are strengthening defenses – he added – in the eastern region and in the Donbass. We must commend the courage and steadfastness of those who defend the cities, but also say that our country did not get enough modern anti-missile systems from the Western allies.”
“He is practically the only one in Europe who openly supports Putin.” Zelensky returned to attack Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Ukrainian president said that he “spoke frankly about Orban: this is the honesty that Mr. Orban lacks, he may have lost it somewhere in his contacts with Moscow” (ANSA).
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Laurence Malcom
