victory. but a russian defeat would come much faster if western allies stepped up their weapon delivery. here s some of sky news s debra hanes s conversation with alexi danalov. reporter: this is one of the officials at the heart of ukraine s war effort. and he s confident of victory. but he said the speed of russia s defeat depend on how fast the west delivers weapons. reporter: without western military support, would ukraine have been able to successfully defend kyiv in the way that you did? reporter: he showed me photographs of what he said were syrians killed fighting for russia. sky news couldn t independently verify the claim but moscow has
today four other european leaders traveled to the ukrainian capital by ukraine in a show of solidarity amid the back drop of these russian atrocities. the president of poland, lithuania, estonia and latvia meeting with volodymyr zelenskyy is kyiv as the ukrainian leader pushes for more western military support. the meetings about russia come amid news that ukrainian pro-russian precision victor was arrested this week after escaping house arrest during the war. zelenskyy offered to release the putin friendly oligarch who was captured wearing a ukrainian military uniform, but only under certain conditions. well, chose a military union for for himself he falls under the rules of war time. i exchange this guy of yours for our boys and our girls who are now in russian captivity. russian called dangerous as same officials continue to support russian president
european countries that have these planes will be backfilled so that they can have those planes be sent to ukraine for use. jim. natasha bertrand in brussels, thanks so much. joining us now to discuss retired u.s. army major mike lions. good to have you on, sir. i want to ask you about western military support, u.s. and nato military support for ukraine because things that were off the table just a couple of weeks ago, right, i mean, you had nato partner like germany did not want to send surface to air missiles. that s changed. they re sending a whole heck of a lot. these jets were off the table, and now it seems like just a couple of days ago, now it sales like something s moving forward there. given that progress, do you think that other measures that are considered off the table now, namely a no fly zone that as this amps up, those could find their way under consideration again? jim, i don t think so. i think the no fly zone is a hard line that crosses the line between a declara
just keeping all options open? so that you can do behind-the-scenes what you really want to do? well, look, i keep describing president zelenskyy as the collective portrait of the ukrainian people, and it is true. and you know, he s nothing without the support that people of ukraine give him, and so i don t think that relationship will be destroyed. therefore, i think he s going to stay within the boundaries set by the people and their expectations. those are incredibly clear. people want peace but not at any cost. therefore, no territorial losses for ukraine. those will be unacceptable to people of ukraine. there will be no change to our european course. on course to join europe. definitely not going to change our constitution in anything apart from possibly, you know, statements of ow neutrality. look, let s be realistic. ukraine has always been a neutral country.
remilitarization of ukraine or western military support in case russia breaks its promises again in a swift manner. that could work, potentially. look, president zelenskyy was really clear. saying even 1% of, chance of peace, we should try and take it. and, look. i personally look, i m being a realist and being slightly pessimistic as to the outcomes of those negotiations, because by the looks of it, president putin gone all-in and not ending in ukraine or in europe. so when it comes to these negotiations, these discussions, igor, the washington post reports mixed signals from ukraine s president and his aides, leaving the west confused about his end game. zelenskyy has said ukraine wants peace, but not at any court and vows to fight russia at any cost necessary. same time, progress negotiates with russia. is this mixed messaging or is it