The president of Ukraine told 60 Minutes if his nation was given additional advanced weapons, it could end the Russian war faster.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley the world must unite against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"There are nations with billions of people who should tell him that the steps you [Putin] are taking are leading to a third world war," Zelenskyy warned through a translator.Putin's long game Putin's troops invaded Ukraine in February of 2022. Despite Russia initially anticipating a quick conquest, the war has dragged on. This spring, Ukraine launched a counter-offensive and has regained some territory it initially lost.
Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes that if Western nations provide Ukraine with advanced weapons, his country will be able to expel Russian troops much faster. The Ukrainian President is now braced for a long conflict as the Russian leader hopes Ukraine's western allies will lose interest in supporting the war. in Kyiv in April 2022,"We are defending the ability of a person to live in the modern world," Zelenskyy told Pelley through a translator."We are defending the right to live. I never thought this right was so costly. These are human values.
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