Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “The priorities are clear: preparing for winter.”

Well, if I do not defend this, who will do it for us? I mean diplomatically.

We want to end this war as quick as possible. We don’t see now signals from the Russian side that they are ready for this, to end this war. That’s why we have to prepare for the winter.

Our European counterparts now know the minimum number of Patriot missiles needed for the winter package, to be honest. All the leaders have this package. Will the Europeans support us? Yes. I do not yet know in what quantities. I know some…

They are slightly on Russia’s side. And by ‘slightly,’ I mean not direct weapons supplies, but a greater openness to them, a greater willingness to help them rather than us – and for a country as large as China, ‘slightly’ means a lot.