Zelensky again requests anti-aircraft batteries after new Russian attack

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, again asked his allies this Saturday (04/27/2024) to provide more anti-aircraft defense systems after the country shot down only 21 of the 34 missiles that the Russian invaders launched at dawn against three western Ukrainian regions and center-east, in a bombing that seriously damaged the energy system.

“Tonight 34 Russian missiles were aimed at Ukraine. We managed to intercept a part of them. However, the world has all the resources to help us intercept all missiles and drones fired by Russian terrorists. This is completely feasible. The only thing that does What is missing is that the necessary political decisions and agreements are applied,” he wrote on his social networks.

“What Ukraine needs are air defense systems, a sufficient quantity and quality of weapons to guarantee our actions on the front line, as well as rapid delivery and firm action. Terrorism must always fail,” emphasized the president, who thanked The United States and other partners its help, a day after Washington announced that it will release $6 billion to increase kyiv’s access to Patriot missiles and drones.

This morning’s attack affected “energy infrastructure in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv,” Energy Minister German Galushchenko said on Facebook. The Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions are in western Ukraine, on the border with the European Union and hundreds of kilometers from the front line.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk indicated on the X network (Twitter) that one of the missiles fired by Russia at night fell in Ukraine, “15 km” from the Polish border. kyiv says Moscow is stepping up its air and ground strikes ahead of national celebrations on May 9, when Russia commemorates victory in World War II, and when Ukraine awaits the arrival of crucial American weapons.

Russia also intensified bombing of the Ukrainian railway network to “paralyze” the shipment of Western equipment, a senior official in Ukraine’s security services said.