Ukrainian war, Zelensky: “Whoever does not send weapons is responsible for the dead”

Volodymyr Zelensky returns to ask for weapons, all the more necessary to free Mariupol from the Russian siege, on the 48th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. In a video released during the night, the Ukrainian president stressed the responsibility for the death of thousands of Ukrainian civilians of those who keep them in their arsenals: “If we had enough fighters and heavy armored vehicles and the necessary artillery, we could do it. I’m sure we will have almost everything we need. But not only time is wasted, the lives of Ukrainians are also lost, lives that will never come back, “Zelensky said. Then the jab: “There is also the responsibility of continuing to keep the weapons Ukraine needs in its arsenals. A responsibility that will remain forever in history.” Read also As for the use of chemical weapons, Zelensky does not rule out that Russia may have recourse to them in the “new phase of terror” threatened against Ukraine. “The occupiers have released a new statement, which testifies to their preparation for a new phase of terror against Ukraine and our defenders. One of the occupiers’ spokesmen said they could use chemical weapons against Mariupol – said the Ukrainian president – We take this statement very seriously “. Zelensky later denounced that” the occupiers have left mines everywhere “. “In the houses they confiscated, in the streets, in the fields. They undermined people’s properties, cars, doors,” he said, speaking of “tens if not hundreds of thousands” of dangerous ammunition left by the Russians in their retreat from the country. north of the country.