Ukraine’s former president has told Sky News that military aircraft should be supplied to his country to help fight the Russians and “give us the opportunity to protect you”.
Petro Poroshenko was speaking to Sky’s special correspondent Alex Crawford in the Kyiv region and said without the aircraft, there is “no other way out”.
He said: “We need to be united. This is not a war against Ukraine – this is a war against the whole West. Against US, against Europe, against the UK.
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“We need a plane – a military jet. I’m absolutely confident we have no other way out. We like to have the plane now because we need to protect our airspace.
“We don’t need now the American pilots, we don’t need now the American soldiers – just give us the opportunity to protect you.”
Asked about his confidence over the potential for the humanitarian corridors to succeed, he warned: “Please, don’t trust Putin. Putin never keeps promises. I’m not very much optimistic, frankly speaking.”
