Zelensky calls for 10 Patriot missile systems to stop Russia and anticipates difficult months for Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated this Sunday that Ukraine could regain the initiative and advance again on the front if it received small amounts of additional weapons material such as the American Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.

“If today or in the coming months Ukraine received ten Patriot systems for the key industrial centers of Ukraine, and we could use these systems closer to the front line, (Russian planes) would not approach us, they would retreat, we would break their lines defense and we would advance,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian head of state added that the situation on the entire front would change radically if Ukraine received similar quantities of these and “two or three” other types of Western weapons.

Zelensky anticipated some “difficult” months of March and April for Ukraine, both on the battlefield and on the “political and financial” fronts.

“Russia will prepare counteroffensive actions at the beginning of summer or at the end of May, if it can,” added the Ukrainian head of state, whose Army is giving ground in the east to the push of Russian forces that take advantage of their numerical superiority in soldiers and ammunition.