President Volodymyr Zelensky has attacked Senator J.D. Vance, a leading America First voice in Congress, for saying that handing Ukraine $60 billion is unwise, partly because it is “not going to fundamentally change the reality on the battlefield.”
“I’m not sure that he understands what’s going on here, and we don’t need any rhetoric from people who are not deeply in the, you know, in the war,” Zelensky told CNN.
“So, to understand it is to come to the front line, to see what’s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand what will be with them, and then what will be with them without this support [sic],” he continued.
“And then [Senator Vance] will understand that millions [of] people been killed [sic] – will be killed,” he added.
“Of course he [doesn’t understand it], God bless, you don’t have the war on your territory.”
Frontline soldiers leaked to the U.S. press that they had suffered extremely heavy casualties shortly before Russian forces captured Avdiivka, a fortress town contested since the first phase of the war began following the Euromaidan in 2014.
Vance argues another massive transfer of funds to Zelensky cannot reverse these losses or even replenish the Ukrainian military’s acute shortage of munitions, as the U.S. and Europe lack the industrial capacity to produce sufficient stocks. The Ohio senator has also argued that rather than preventing millions of deaths, a continued war between Ukraine and Russia will needlessly cost more lives.
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