Ukraine’s president visits London, Paris and Brussels - only his second trip abroad since the war began - before an expected Russian offensive in coming weeks.
He is scheduled to meet both French President Emmanuel Macron and Mr Scholz during his overnight stop there.He is then expected to head to Brussels on Thursday, where all 27 leaders of the EU’s member states will be gathering for a two-day summit. It is only his second overseas trip, afterMr Zelensky is in a race against time to shore up Ukraine’s defences ahead of an expected “Many analysts expect the assault to take place on February 24, the first anniversary of the invasion.
“It is not round-the-clock shelling any more. They are slowly starting to save, getting ready for a full-scale offensive,” he said.The many tanks that Ukraine has been promised in the past month will not arrive soon enough to repel this Russian attack, if it comes. France has donated AMX-10 RC armoured surveillance and combat vehicles, known in the French military as “light tanks”. But it says its Leclerc tanks are either unsuitable or in the process of being upgraded.
“Great Britain, you extended your helping hand when the world had not yet come to understand how to react,” Mr Zelensky said in his address to British parliamentarians.Mr Johnson, who visited Mr Zelensky in Kyiv in a personal capacity last month, has urged the West to provide fighter jets. The Ukrainian president reportedly does not believe he can win the war without a more powerful airborne capability.
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