Volodymyr Zelenskiy, at NATO HQ, asks for weapons to face winter of 'terror'
Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday asked NATO allies for more weapons and air defences to tide his country through another wartime winter as it braces for a barrage of Russian attacks on power stations and other infrastructure.
Zelenskiy made his first visit to NATO headquarters since Russia's invasion last year, at a time when turbulence in the U.S.
Congress threatens to disrupt aid for Kyiv and the world's attention is drawn to another crisis unfolding in Israel.
He made explicit comparisons between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, and said Western military aid was crucial to put Moscow on the backfoot in the war.
«The winter air defence is a significant part of the answer to the question of when this war will end and whether it will end justly for Ukraine,» he said.
«We must win the winter battle against terror and we can win it,» he added at a meeting of defence ministers from NATO and some 20 other countries that give military aid to Ukraine in a U.S.-led forum known as the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
Reiterating the West's pledge to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes, U.S.
