President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine hoped to secure heavy weapons during talks with the US secretaries of state and defence on Sunday in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian leader warned that if Russia destroyed “our people” in Mariupol or held referendums to create more breakaway republics on newly occupied Ukrainian soil, Kyiv would end talks with Moscow.
Mr. Putin could use a nuclear weapon, but he did not want to believe that Moscow would.
He said that it was absolutely vital for Ukraine to obtain more weapons.
“As soon as we have (more weapons), as soon as there are enough of them, believe me, we will immediately retake this or that territory, which is temporarily occupied,” he told reporters.
He used his news conference held in Kyiv’s metro system to announce the imminent arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for talks on Sunday.
