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Zelensky rebukes West as Russia closes in on key Ukraine city

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Published: 13:33, 26 May 2022  
Zelensky rebukes West as Russia closes in on key Ukraine city

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a bitter rebuke to the West for not doing enough to help Kyiv win the war, as fierce battles rage in the country's east and Russian troops draw ever closer to encircling a key industrial city.

Calling for help "without limits", specifically shipments of heavy weaponry, Zelensky also blasted recent suggestions a negotiated peace could include territorial concessions, reports The Moscow Times.

Outside the city of Severodonetsk, now the focal point of Moscow's renewed offensive in Ukraine's Donbas region, fighting was "very difficult," said Luhansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday.

But the industrial center has yet to be surrounded, he said in a video posted to Telegram Wednesday.

Predicting the "coming week will be decisive," Gaiday added the city was being subjected to a "colossal amount of shelling" by Russian troops attempting to batter it into submission.

Earlier in the day, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos his country "badly" needs multiple-launch rocket systems to match Russian firepower in the battle for Donbas.

Zelensky echoed that plea from Kyiv.

"We need the help of our partners — above all, weapons for Ukraine. Full help, without exceptions, without limits, enough to win," Zelensky said in his daily address to the nation.

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