'The world's fault': Zelenskyy speaks out amid Russian assault ABC News spoke exclusively with the Ukrainian president

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'The world's fault': Zelenskyy speaks out amid Russian assault

ABC News spoke exclusively with the Ukrainian president.


https://abcnews.go.com/International/reporters-notebook-kharkiv-hospital-zelenskyy-laments-slow-aid/story?id=110294232

By James Longman and Oleksiy Pshemyskiy May 16, 2024, 4:57 AM



KHARKIV, Ukraine -- The situation in Ukraine is so serious that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to cancel a planned trip to Spain and come straight to Kharkiv -- the country’s second largest city, which is again in real danger from the Russian advance.

With exclusive access, ABC News joined Zelenskyy on a tour of a hospital in the city, with Zelenskyy, where he met soldiers injured in the northern defense, and presented them with medals of valor.

“It’s really important for me to be here,” he told us, as we walked the corridors.


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“All we need are two Patriot systems,” he said. “Russia will not be able to occupy Kharkiv if we have those.”

I told him many Americans are worried about how much money is being spent on Ukraine. And in this election year it’s going to be an issue that American voters pay attention to.

“That money is not given to Ukraine,” he said. “It’s money spent in American factories, creating American jobs… And we are not just fighting for our freedom. If not Ukraine, it would be another country.”................


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PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with ABC News Foreign Correspondent James Longman in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on May 16, 2024.