Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said that he told US and European leaders that Ukraine wanted to launch its counteroffensive earlier but it needed more weapons for that.
According to the Ukrainian leader, the counteroffensive is slowed down because of difficulties on the battlefield. “I wanted our counteroffensive to happen much earlier, because everyone understood that if the counteroffensive unfolds later, then a bigger part of our territory will be mined. We give our enemy the time and possibility to place more mines and prepare their defensive lines,” he said in an interview with CNN.
He expressed the need for more weapons and support from the US and European leaders to accelerate the counteroffensive.
Zelensky emphasized that having long-range artillery and missiles would be crucial for a successful counteroffensive.
“I’m grateful to the US as the leaders of our support, but I told them as well as the European leaders that we would like to start our counteroffensive earlier, and we need all the weapons and materiel for that. Why? Simply because if we start later, it will go slower,” he noted. “The later we start, the more difficult it will be for us.”
