Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his dissatisfaction towards the US and his western allies on Friday claiming that Ukraine is left alone to fight the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian army lost Chernobyl to Russia late on Thursday and at least 130 Ukrainians were reported dead, according to a report by news agency AFP.
When Russian president Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine on Thursday, Ukraine Foreign Minister said Kyiv will defend and win.
Putin warned, “Whoever would try to stop us and further create threats, to our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history.”
Ukraine’s allies – NATO, the United States of America and other world powers, in the meantime, ruled out sending troops to Kyiv and rather pledged to send financial and technical support to Ukraine. to help it defend itself from Russian aggression. Zelensky said on Friday:
We have been left alone to defend our state. Who is ready to fight alongside us? I don’t see anyone. Who is ready to give Ukraine a guarantee of NATO membership? Everyone is afraid.
Zelensky said that 137 Ukrainians, including troops and civilians, died due to Russian aggression. More than 300 people were injured, the president further added.
Zelensky said that he remains Russia’s target number one and maintained that he will remain in Ukraine with his family.
His concerns were echoed by some US lawmakers on Thursday who urged the Biden administration to help Ukraine with weapons along with announcing strict financial sanctions on Russia.
Retired United States Navy admiral James Stavridis, who also served as NATO chief, urged the Biden administration to bolster NATO’s strength in eastern Europe to thwart any further plans of Russian aggression.
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Russia seems to be doing exactly what USA did during what came to be known as the Cuba Missile Crisis. In 1962 Oct 18 – Oct 28, the then USSR deployed missiles on the soil of independent Cuba of course at the request of Cuba. USA leadership cut wires and threatened the invade Cuba, claiming the missiles were too close to USA heartland and were threatening US security, yet Cuba shares no boundary with USA and lies thousands of miles away. After a very tense week or so, USSR averted war by withdrawing the missiles from Cuba. Now, NATO, USA and allies have deployed missiles in Ukraine and other states neighboring Russia, having learnt nothing from the Cuba Missile Crisis. Definitely, Russia has reasons to feel threatened by these heavy deployments of missiles deployed at its border, by countries hostile to it. However, rather than toning down the drums of war and rhetoric, arrogant NATO and USA have ignored the volatility of the security of the region, hyped the rhetoric and war propaganda, and emboldened Ukraine not to consider the option of foreign weapons withdrawal, and even increasing arms supply to it. In fact, from the hyping and propaganda that has been going on even upto now, US and allies apparently wanted the war between Russia and Ukraine to happen, for reasons of maybe using it a springboard to attack/weaken Russia. The result: a WAR THAT NONE WILL WIN.