The Ukrainian delegation warned the US in Washington this week that security assistance packages are not arriving quickly enough in the besieged country.
The delegation of Ukrainian civil society advocates, military veterans and former government officials met with 45 lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, officials at the departments of State and Defense and the National Security Council at the White House.
The 44th day of the war was supposed to be lost on the third day, according to the Anti-Corruption Action Center.
She said on Friday that the military and territorial defense units should be given the power to prevent more graves in the backyards of innocent people.
Explanations for why certain weapons systems can't be delivered were given by U.S. lawmakers and Biden administration officials.
The six-year-old boy who is visiting his mother's grave in his backyard doesn't want to hear about bureaucracy being an excuse for not delivering weapons to Ukraine.
This is an extraordinary situation where extraordinary measures have to be taken. Lift your bureaucracy now. The president of the United States has a lot of power. She said that they know it's possible.
In the courtyard of their house, Vlad Tanyuk, 6, stands near the grave of his mother Ira Tanyuk, who died because of starvation and stress due to the war, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022.The Ukrainian Foreign Minister made a plea to NATO allies to deliver their arms commitments.
Kuleba told reporters at NATO's headquarters on April 7 that they should either help us now or it will be too late.
I have no doubt that Ukraine will have the weapons to fight. The question is when. The discussion is not about the weapons. The discussion is about when we get them and this is crucial, as people are dying today and the offensive is unfolding.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken downplayed concerns that allies were withholding weapons.
They are coming forward with new systems that they think would be helpful and effective. He said that the U.S. is working to get appropriate weapons to Ukraine and that Ukrainians will be ready to use as soon as they get it.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are all quoted in Blinken's comments. Austin and Milley told lawmakers last week that some weapons systems on the wish list require months of training.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 6, 2022.Olena Tregub is the former director for international assistance at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
As we sit here with you, we need strike drones, long-range and medium-range strike capabilities because the Russians are moving huge columns, huge forces into the southeast of Ukraine.
Western intelligence reports say that Russian forces will soon focus their military might in eastern and southern Ukraine after weeks of stalling ground advances on the capital city of Kyiv.
In the past six weeks, Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine have been beset with a number of logistical problems, including reports of fuel and food shortages.
Jake Sullivan, a national security advisor, told reporters at the White House on April 4 that Russia's initial aim was to seize the capital of Kyiv, replace the Zelensky government and take control of much if not all of Ukraine.
Sullivan said that the U.S. officials believed the Kremlin was changing its goal in the war.
A senior U.S. Defense official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Pentagon that Russian troops are being resupplied with additional manpower in Belarus.
The Pentagon believes those troops will return to the fight in Ukraine soon. The Pentagon believes the majority of the troops will move to the Donbas region, the site of an ongoing conflict since 2014, according to an official.
An woman walks in front of destroyed buildings in the town of Borodianka on April 6, 2022, where the Russian retreat last week has left clues of the battle waged to keep a grip on the town, just 50 kilometres (30 miles) north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.Maria Berlinska is a Ukrainian military veteran who fought in the conflict in Donbas. She asked the U.S. lawmakers for serious weapons, including middle-range surface-to-air missile systems, jets, tanks and armored vehicles.
We are almost out of bullets. She said that if you don't have bullets you can't do anything.
Berlinska said that it was naive to think that Putin would stop if he took Ukraine.
If we don't win this war, it will be fought on NATO territory. She warned that he has larger plans and needs to be stopped in Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers walk next to destroyed Russian tanks and armored vehicles, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 6, 2022.More than 100,000 U.S. troops have been deployed to NATO member countries since the Moscow invasion.
More than 140 warships and 130 aircraft have been prepared by the NATO alliance. NATO has warned Putin that an attack on a NATO member state will be seen as an attack on all.
Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania are NATO allies of Ukraine. Poland has taken the lion's share of refugees fleeing Putin's war and currently hosts the majority of the troops from the alliance.
I think we have proved to the world that if we surrender there will be concentration camps. The Anti-Corruption Action Center said that Putin is going to do something to Ukrainians.
She said it was a genocide, the elimination of an entire nation and she was not exaggerating.
The UN has confirmed 1,793 deaths and 2,439 injuries in Ukraine since Russia invaded it.
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