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Ukraine received only 10% of pledged weapons: defence ministry

"We need to know clear deadlines because every day there's a delay, we're talking about the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians," said deputy defence minister Anna Malyar.

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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy emphasised that the speed with which Ukraine was able to retake territory occupied by Russia "really depends on this aid and weapons".

Ukraine has received just 10 percent of the weapons pledged by the West to help Kiev fight off the Russian offensive, the country's deputy defence minister has said.

"From what we said we need, we got about 10 percent," Anna Malyar told in televised remarks on Tuesday, saying the West should speed up its delivery schedule.

"No matter how hard Ukraine tries, no matter how professional our army is, without the help of Western partners we will not be able to win this war."

There should be "a clear timeframe" for such deliveries as every delay cost Ukraine dearly and risked more territory falling into Russian hands, said Malyar.

"We need to know clear deadlines because every day there's a delay, we're talking about the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians."

"We can't wait very long, because the situation is very complicated," she added, referring to the creeping Russian advance in Donbass, where Moscow's forces are poised to take over the entire Luhansk region.

'Restrained behaviour'

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again appealed for heavy weapons from the West, criticising the "restrained behaviour" of some European leaders which he said had "slowed down arms supplies very much".

"I am grateful for what is coming, but it must come faster," he told Danish journalists in an online briefing.

Russia, he said, had "hundreds of times more equipment and weapons" than Ukraine which did not have enough "long-range weapons" nor "armoured vehicles, and because of that we are losing people," he said.

The speed with which Ukraine was able to retake territory occupied by Russia "really depends on this aid and weapons," Zelenskyy added.

"If there's no speeding-up of weapons deliveries, there will be stagnation... people will continue dying. If we are given weapons, we'll move forward."

SOURCE: AFP