aid, American and European, is not arriving and “every day, we count human lives”, testifies a Ukrainian MP

“Not enough has been done and is not being done today to allow the end of this war,” protests Lesia Vasylenko as a new Russian strike left dozens injured in kyiv.

“Every day counts. Every day, we count human lives”, testified Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian MP, Wednesday December 13 on franceinfo, while the Ukrainian president is struggling to obtain American or European aid. After Washington, Volodymyr Zelensky is in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday to repeat that his country “can’t win without help”. Last night, kyiv experienced the heaviest human toll in months of clashes with Russia: 53 injured after a nighttime attack on the capital.

“Ballistic missiles were aimed at strategic or energy points, says Lesia Vasylenko. E“Of course, they don’t put much effort into making sure that homes, people, aren’t attacked.” Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses shot down ten Russian ballistic missiles launched around 3 a.m. (French time) on kyiv, but the debris fell on inhabited areas, including a pediatric hospital.

The feeling of being forgotten

Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky is on a European tour after the American one to ask for help from the West. “It is a big problem for us today that American aid has still not arrived in Ukraine”regrets the Ukrainian MP. “And we don’t see how in the next two days, because it’s the only time left, an agreement will be found in the American Congress.” It is especially “the suffering front” of the lack of American aid, an envelope of 61 billion dollars, which currently divides the American Congress. “It’s not only weapons, but also food, clothes, all the important things for winter, all the humanitarian aid, medicines…”testifies the elected official.

"The impression here," in Ukraine, according to Lesia Vasylenko, it is because the Western gaze has turned towards the war that began on October 7 between Hamas and Israel. “We have been in this very active stage of war for two years. When we are saying that 53 people were injured in an airstrike during the night, it’s a bit of the same thing. happened a week ago, a month ago, a year ago. The brain has gotten used to this. But we must be adult and responsible, and understand that it is a war of aggression against the Ukraine. And that Russia is allowed to continue this war today. So not enough has been done and is being done today to allow this war to end with a Ukrainian victory.”