The TV channel host asked whether Kyiv could “win or end this war on its own terms,” if Washington stops military aid, and if it doesn’t win, then “end” military operations.
“Can we win without American support? No… [В такой ситуации] all soldiers will think only about their families,” the head of state said.
Zelensky noted that without the United States, the Ukrainian sky will suffer the most.
“Even now it is very difficult, but American support with air defense missiles really helps. And in any case, the Russian Federation uses hundreds and thousands of drones and missiles. So it is difficult,” the head of state noted.
The Ukrainian defense forces are also using weapons purchased from the American side on the front line, and this will also affect the prospects for the course of the war, Zelensky added.
Context
US President Donald Trump, who took office at the end of January, has repeatedly stated that the US allegedly provided $350 billion in aid to Ukraine from the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion (until his second tenure as head of the White House).
On February 23, Voice of America wrote that, according to the interagency monitoring group responsible for reporting to the US Congress, Congress allocated approximately $183 billion to Ukraine. Of this, as the Pentagon confirmed to the publication, the United States transferred $65.9 billion in military aid to Ukraine. Another $3.9 billion that Congress authorized in the form of military assistance to Kyiv remains unspent.
Zelensky, in an interview with American journalist and political commentator Ben Shapiro, published on April 24, said that Ukraine from the first days of a full-scale invasion The Russian Federation demonstrates complete transparency in the use of international assistance, including from the United States, which provided $105 billion to Kyiv.
