30/03/2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview published Friday that if his country does not get promised U.S. military aid blocked by a divided Congress, its forces will have to retreat "in small steps."
Ukraine relies on financial aid from its Western partners, but foreign financing dwindled in the first two months of this year, while a robust U.S. aid package has been blocked for months by Republicans in Congress.
"If there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155 millimeter artillery rounds," Zelenskyy told The Washington Post.
"It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps," he added. "We are trying to find some way not to retreat."