As the conflict between the two nations heat up with the Russian side pressing down on the offensive, the Ukrainian government has accused its international partners including the United States of America, the United Kingdom and other NATO nations of being complacent and non-challant amid the raging war with Russia.
Ukraine asked NATO not to think that the weapons they have supplied Ukraine so far would help them defeat Russia in the going war.
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The spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s international legion derided the country’s partners, saying they needed far more support if it is to defeat Russia’s invasion.
“There’s a certain sense of complacency that seems to have fallen over our western partners that the arms deliveries that Ukraine has been already provided with are somehow enough to win the war,” Damien Magrou said, according to CNN.
“They are not! They do not come near anything that would be close to enabling us to defeat the Russians on the battlefield.”
The spokesperson said his country is lacking in long-range artillery capability, asking the west to keep sending heavy artillery and other heavy weapons to Ukraine.
According to him, his nation needs long-distance rockets, and anti-ship rockets on the battlefield as fast as possible.
He warned that the longer there is a delay in supply, the more casualties Ukraine would be recording.
In another report, it has been revealed that Russia earned nearly $100bn (£82.3bn) from oil and gas exports during the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, according to a report.
Revenues have been falling since March, as many countries shunned Russian supplies, but remain high, the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found.
It also warned of potential loopholes in efforts to curb imports from Russia. The EU, US and UK are among those to have pledged to cut Russian imports.
But the CREA report found Russia still earned $97bn in revenue from fossil fuel exports in the first 100 days of the Ukraine conflict, from 24 February to 3 June.
The European Union made up 61% of these imports, worth approximately $59bn.
Overall, exports of Russian oil and gas are falling and Moscow’s revenue from energy sales has also declined from a peak of well over $1bn a day in March.
But revenues still exceeded the cost of the Ukraine war during the first 100 days – with the CREA estimating that Russia is spending around $876m per day on the invasion.
