’Russia will not stop until it is stopped’: Ukrainian FM
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged allies to provide Ukraine with more modern weaponry, including F-16 fighter jets, after Moscow rained more missiles and drones down on his country at the weekend, saying in a post that „Russia will not stop until it is stopped.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks to reporters in Warsaw on Friday, April 1, 2022. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak
„Russia unleashed another salvo of missiles on Ukraine this Saturday,” Kuleba said in a message on the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
„Russia will not stop until it is stopped,” he added. „The global community must focus on enforcing a just and lasting peace: arming Ukraine, including with F-16s to close the sky, and implementing Ukraine’s Peace Formula.”
Russia launched a massive aerial attack on Ukraine using air- and sea-based missiles as well as Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones overnight from Saturday to Sunday, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported.
Russian attacks 'will give nothing to the enemy’: Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation that the southern city of Zaporizhzhia and the western Khmelnytskyi region were attacked by Russian Kinzhal and Kalibr missiles on Saturday.
The country’s air defence intercepted at least some of the missiles, the president said.
Zelensky told the nation that Motor Sich, a Ukrainian company that produces aviation engines and gas turbine units, appeared to have been the target in Zaporizhzhia, US broadcaster CNN reported.
„Kinzhals, Kalibrs… They were targeting Motor Sich, our Khmelnytskyi region,” Zelensky said, as quoted by Ukrinform.
He added: „Some of the missiles were shot down, and I thank our air defense forces for that. But no matter how many such Russian attacks we see, they will give nothing to the enemy. All the same, we will be protecting freedom for Ukraine, for all our people. And Russia will not be able to replace international law with terror, or crises, or any intimidation.”
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
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Source: IAR, PAP, CNN, ukrinform.net/ukrinform.net
