real end to hostilities he said along with nine other demands and freeing ukrainian prisoners. does this change, do you think, the way the approach is? president zelenskyy, what do you think is on his mind right now? i think it doesn t change his approach. i think he s been proven right. he s been warning against such accidents if in fact it were an accident and he was claiming the faster we provide the weapons ukraine needs, the faster we defeat putin on the battlefield, the less chance there is of an accident. they re trying to pacify putin. they were trying, they weren t listening to what zelenskyy was saying and now this is the first tangible consequence of this war dragging on for so long because certain weapons are missing and certain capabilities are going to end this war and is missing
longer term bringing together all the countries to figure out who has the weapons ukraine needs and who can get it to them and how quickly. and on that point, are all the may toe all nato allies on e here? because there has been criticism that perhaps germany has been somewhat slow and hesitating somewhat in providing military material. reporter: so there is the broader question of do all nato countries support ukraine and that answer is yes, but there is some hesitancy in terms of what weapons that they can send in. but nobody has slowed the process. nato habit september hasn t se its own. it is conditions within nato making the decision to send weapons. and that is how that process has unfolded. have others faced criticism for not sending in weapons? yes, we ve seen that. are we expecting more
ukraine is still forced to ask. for what its partners have been storing for years. if they have the weapons ukraine needs, if they have the ammunition we need, it is their moral duty to help protect freedom. ukrainian forces have used western weapons to deadly effect, turning russian tanks into twisted wrecks. but russia s army is huge and it can call on yet more firepower. that s why the uk, alongside countries including germany and the us, has promised to send further military aid. we will intensify our support for president zelensky and i propose that our long term goal must be to strengthen and fortify ukraine to the point where russia will never dare to invade again. despite pledges of support and a steadfast ukrainian resistance, russian forces continue to grind down the defenders, as seen in these images from a pro russian youtuber embedded with forces in mariupol.
after russian backed rebels seized swathes of land in 2014. but now there s a new tempo far deadlier than the norm as russian forces step up their bombardment of this former industrial heartland. the two sides now engaged along a 300 mile front line. success in the east would allow president putin to claim victory of sorts from his beleaguered war and enable russia to establish a land corridor to crimea that it annexed in 2014. as moscow moves west, it faces the ukrainian armed forces. last night, once again, their leader called on their allies for more weapons. translation: it is unfair that ukraine is still forced to ask. for what its partners have been storing for years. if they have the weapons ukraine needs, if they have the ammunition we need, it is their moral duty to help protect freedom.
deadlier than the norm, as russian forces step up their bombardment of this former industrial heartland. the two sides now engaged along a 300 mile front line. success in the east would allow president putin to claim victory of sorts from his beleaguered war and enable russia to establish a land corridor to crimea, which it annexed in 2014. as moscow moves west, it faces the ukrainian armed forces. last night, once again, their leader called on their allies for more weapons. translation: it is unfair that ukraine is still forced to ask. for what its partners have been storing for years. if they have the weapons ukraine needs, if they have the ammunition we need, it is their moral duty to help protect freedom. ukrainian forces have used western weapons to deadly effect, turning russian tanks into twisted wrecks.