Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has “insisted” to the leaders of countries that pay for weapons for their military that they should provide financial support for the next “two or three years”.
The EU is working on using frozen Russian assets as a source of funding for donations of weapons systems to Ukraine’s armed forces, in comments in which President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would need the funds for more years.
Zelensky said that even if the war ended quickly, Ukraine would still take the cash for reconstruction. Otherwise, he said, “Then we will spend it on weapons. We have no other option”, Agence France Presse reports.
Zelensky is said to have said about their talks: “I stressed this again to all the European leaders. I told them that we are not going to fight for decades, but you have to show that for some time you will be able to provide Ukraine with stable financial support… [for] Two or three years”.
In separate comments, the Ukrainian president said this was part of sending a message to Russia that it could not expect to win by bankrupting Ukraine, because its European partners would continue to underwrite it. He said: “It is very important to send a clear signal – look, we will finance them.
“And look – if [Russia] We will not stop, we will continue to support them. It also shows Russia that there is no point in this war, because we will not give up – and our partners will not give up either.
