On Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky again asked for fighter jets and long range missiles during his first visits to the UK and France since the Russian invasion almost one year ago.
“The sooner Ukraine gets long-range heavy weaponry, the sooner our pilots get planes, the sooner this Russian aggression will end and we can return to peace in Europe.”
– Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine
During Zelensky’s visit to the UK, he met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III before he addressed the British parliament.
Britain said it would consider the proposal for fighter jets in the “long term,” and Sunak said that “nothing is off the table” for Ukraine.
Zelensky later made a last minute visit to France, where he met French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Macron pledged that France would help Ukraine to victory, while Scholz said Germany would continue to back Ukraine “financially, with humanitarian aid and with weapons”.
