Zelensky in the Swedish parliament: Ukraine is fighting for the security of the whole of Europe

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Ukraine is fighting for the security of the whole of Europe and should be a full member of the European Union, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Swedish lawmakers today via video call, Reuters reported.

“We are fighting not only for the people of Ukraine, but for the security of Europe, and we have shown that we deserve to be a full member of the EU,” Zelensky told the Swedish parliament.

“Putin’s lightning war has failed”

In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that “Putin’s lightning war has failed” and that “his country continues to resist.”

“The army, the citizens of my country, the authorities of Kiev and many other areas gathered and put up a huge resistance, blocking this invasion, the most barbaric since the Second World War,” Zelensky added, according to ΑΜΠΕ.

“Lightning war has failed and the resistance of the Ukrainians, who are defending their country, their homes, their families, their freedom and their sovereignty, has been going on for a month now. The enemy is morally intimidated,” he said.

The Ukrainian president stressed that “the Russian army does not respect any international treaty, uses banned bombs and weapons and kills women and children.”

Speaking to La Repubblica, Zelensky said he was willing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but not to accept the imposition of a Russian ultimatum, and confirmed that his country wanted to join the European Union.

“Put pressure on the invader, increase sanctions, do not buy Russian goods, withdraw your businesses from this country. Russia must suffer the consequences of its criminal activity. In its economy, with empty store shelves, yachts and “The villas are under confiscation, so that the Russians can not travel to your beautiful country,” said the Ukrainian president.

He called on NATO to provide “unrestricted military assistance” to his country

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on NATO countries to provide “unrestricted military assistance” to his country so that it can fight the Russian military, which has so far faced “unequal conditions”.

“In order to save our people and our cities, Ukraine needs unrestricted military assistance. As Russia uses all its arsenal against us without restraint,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message posted on his Telegram account. is addressed to the Heads of State and Government of the Atlantic Alliance meeting in Brussels on the subject of the war in Ukraine.

“The Ukrainian army has been resisting unequal conditions for a month now! I have been repeating the same thing for a month now.”

Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his call for the supply of fighter jets and tanks, mainly to lift the siege of Mariupol, Berdyansk and Melitopol, cities in southern Ukraine that are under siege by the Russian army.

“You have thousands of fighter jets. But you have not given them to us yet,” he said.

“You have at least 20,000 tanks (…) Ukraine has asked for one percent of all your tanks! Give them to us or sell them to us! But we still do not get a clear answer.”

The Ukrainian president has accused Russia of using phosphorus bombs in Ukraine against Ukrainian targets, exactly one month after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, reiterating allegations made by the governor of the Luhansk region after the bombing of the town of Rubine.

“Russian phosphorus bombs fell this morning (…). Adults were killed and children were killed again,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in the same message.

Another Luhansk official had accused Russian forces on March 13 of using phosphorus bombs. And an official from Irpin, northwest of Kiev, made similar allegations yesterday in a post on social media.