Zelenskyy: We are thankful to the American team for transfer of anti ballistic missiles, but for today it is too slow.
We don’t know what Putin will do. We are asking President Trump and his team: we don’t need too many words. You see what does it mean when the packages come? 1/
Zelenskyy: Europe, the United States and many other countries live from election to election. That is understandable. But please, the priority must be saving lives. 2/
Zelenskyy: Kushner and Witkoff said they would come to Ukraine. They have to come to see, understand and explain to the President Trump what Russia has to do quickly: sit, negotiate and stop this war. I hope they will come. 3x
Zelenskyy: Russia designed this strike to cause maximum damage: ballistic missiles, waves of Shaheds and other drones, dozens of cruise missiles.
Ukraine shot down 48 missiles and 476 drones overnight, but not all. We need more Patriots and anti-ballistic systems.
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Zelenskyy: Air defense must be a key result of the NATO summit. Europe must have enough capacity to defend itself from every threat, including Russian ballistic missiles.
We have long discussed licenses for Patriot production with the U.S. administration.
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Zelenskyy: To truly protect lives, Europe needs its own air defense production — in Ukraine or together with partners.
This would also support the United States in operations when needed.
Kellogg: Putin just wants power. The Soviets left Afghanistan after losing 18,000 soldiers. Putin has lost 1.2 to 1.4 million.
Americans would never accept that. But he keeps going because he thinks he can occupy all of Ukraine. He is not winning.
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Kellogg: Europe’s security will no longer be built only around Germany, France, and the UK.
It will shift east — through Finland, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, and Romania. Ukraine will be the Sparta of Europe, with an army of 800,000. Nobody else has that.
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Kellogg: Putin is on the losing end. If he does not watch out, he may end up like Nicholas II, the last tsar.
Someone will get to him, and I think he is worried about that.
Ukrainian soldiers rinsed their mouths with water from a fire extinguisher and ate rations they took off the Russians they killed to survive in the encirclement.
Russians poisoned them with gas, thinking these were elite forces. Ukrainians held their position for 109 days.
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Anton, one of the Ukrainian soldiers: My neck, arms and back started burning. I jumped out with my rifle and saw a drone. I started shooting, tears streaming.
The grenade was self-made. Chlorine-based powder inside. It smells of acid, eats through everything.
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Anton: We filtered mud, we used water from fire extinguishers to rinse our mouths, but it tasted of ammonia. We couldn’t drink it because it’s acid.
We drank saline, and by radio, guys at other positions said they were drinking chlorhexidine.