Ukrainian troops holding Bakhmut line demand weapons as world powers meet

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Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe.

"Give us more military equipment, more weapons, and we will deal with the Russian occupier, we will destroy them," said Dmytro, a serviceman standing in the snow near Bakhmut, echoing a plea by his president to the Munich conference.

He says he is fighting for Russia's security against an aggressively expanding NATO alliance, but Kyiv and its allies cast the invasion as a colonial-style land grab in Ukraine, formerly part of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union. "Today it is rather difficult on all directions," Serhiy Haidai told local TV. "There are constant attempts to break through our defense lines," he said of fighting near the city of Kreminna.

Zelensky, speaking by video link, called for allies at the meeting to speed up sending weapons and won immediate support from Scholz and Macron. The United States has announced plans to give Ukraine more than 50 of the armored vehicles, which have a powerful gun and have been used by the US Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.

 

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