Zelenskyy slams NATO for denying no-fly zone request
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily denounced NATO in a televised address Friday over its refusal to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
"Knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable, NATO has consciously taken the decision not to close the sky over Ukraine. All the people who will die from this day, will die also because of you," he said.
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Zelenskyy accused NATO of creating a narrative "that the closure of the sky will allegedly provoke a war with Russia."
"It's a self-hypnosis of those who are weak, unconfident inside, though it can possess weapons a lot bigger than we do. You should have thought about people, about humanity," he said.
Zelenskyy said the alliance did agree to purchase 50 tons of fuel, but the president scoffed at the move.
"I don't know who you can defend and whether you are capable. You can't pay off with liters of diesel fuel for the liters of our blood, shed for our common Europe, for our common freedom, for our joint future," he said.
-ABC News' Patrick Reevell and Yulia Drozd