Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that ā€œmillions will be killedā€ in his countryā€™s war with Russia without additional funding from the United States.

CNNā€™s Kaitlan Collins asked Zelensky in an interview to respond to comments made by Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who claimed Ukraineā€™s outcome in its war will not be changed even if it receives the President Bidenā€™s $60 billion aid request. Zelensky said he wasnā€™t sure if Vance ā€œunderstands what is going on here.ā€

ā€œTo understand it is to come to the front line to see whatā€™s going on, to speak with the people, then to go to civilians to understand ā€¦ what will [happen to] them without this support. And he will understand that millions ā€¦ will be killed. Itā€™s a fact,ā€ Zelensky said.

    • @jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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      Because they arenā€™t going to stop. See when they took Crimea in 2014, now itā€™s a full invasion.

      You donā€™t try to appease fascists.

    • @Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      Because itā€™s not a ā€œsmallā€ portion they WANT. Thatā€™s whatā€™s known as a ā€œbeachheadā€. Putin and the rest of the Duma have signaled that they want UKRAINE, in its totality, and preferably would not like those people with their ideas of ā€œindependence from Russiaā€ in their heads - hence Putin actually saying the only victory he would accept is the destruction of Ukrainian identity as a concept (war against a concept doesnā€™t end well - see ā€œwar on terror/war on drugsā€.) This is also ignoring the fact that Russia ALREADY tried the ā€œstorm in, kill the head of state, annex the countryā€ bit with Georgia back in 2008, and got their shit kicked in by the Georgian military. Expansionist powers like Russia donā€™t just stop with whatever country theyā€™re currently invading - thereā€™s always another ā€œover thereā€ to go conquer.

      If you want more evidence on this, I highly recommend you read up on a little thing called Imperial Japan, or potentially just Manifest Destiny. Thereā€™s never such a thing as ā€œenoughā€ for a state hellbent on expanding at all costs into territory they think is rightfully ā€œtheirsā€.