Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Andrii Melnyk, has called on European and U.S. partners to increase air defense assistance to Ukraine tenfold.
He stated this at a UN Security Council meeting focused on the escalation of Russian attacks against Ukrainian civilians, Ukrinform's correspondent in New York reports.
"Ukraine calls on its European and American partners to multiply their air defense assistance at least tenfold. The alarming new scale of Russia's aerial terror requires a response of an entirely different magnitude. We need to better protect the skies over our cities and save civilian lives," Melnyk said.
He also urged all UN member states to take "robust unilateral measures" aimed at depriving Russia's war machine of financial resources.
"Every loophole that remains open, every sanction left unenforced, and every source of revenue left untouched enables the Kremlin to prolong its war of aggression," the diplomat said.
