KRUN, Germany — In a videoconference Monday with the leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed for more advanced weaponry and defense systems to blunt Russia’s air attacks — and the U.S. plans to deliver just that.
President Joe Biden will announce a new aid package this week that will include advanced medium- and long-range air defense systems, a top White House official confirmed, noting that Zelenskyy is eager to shorten a brutal war entering its fifth month.
Zelenskyy, speaking to leaders of the G-7 a day after Russian missiles struck civilian targets in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, told Biden and the other leaders gathered here in the Bavarian Alps that he desperately needs “additional air defense capabilities that could shoot down missiles out of the sky,” according to Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor.
