\n<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that if the country does not get promised U.S. military aid, its forces will have to retreat \u201cin small steps.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-milimetre artillery rounds,\u201d Zelenskyy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are trying to find some way not to retreat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy told House Speaker Mike Johnson in a telephone conversation on Thursday that approval of the package was vital.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used our drones. Nobody can say to us you can\u2019t,\u201d he said. If there is no air defense to protect our energy system and Russians attack it, my question is: Why can\u2019t we answer them?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir society has to learn to live without petrol, without diesel, without electricity. When Russia will stop these steps, we will stop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n