Yermak: “We Are Fighting For All of Democracy’s World”

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Andriy Yermak, can I ask you whether you have enough weaponry to defend yourselves while these talks keep going on, and until you do get a cease- fire and some kind of negotiated end to this? President Zelenskyy appealed to the Norwegian Parliament today, and he’s asked for a lot more weapons. Do you have enough to defend yourself in the meantime?

ANDRIY YERMAK, HEAD OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE: No, not — and why President Zelenskyy and all our team continue to talk every day and make this speech in the different parliament. Tomorrow, President Zelenskyy have the free speech in the Australian Parliament, in the Parliament of Netherlands, and the Belgium. And he continue to do it and continue to talk with the world leaders. It’s happened in the level of the prime minister, in the level of the minister on the foreign affairs. In my level, I talked with sometimes — before, this war, I have the permanent and very often contact with my colleagues, for example, with Jake Sullivan, with Emmanuel Bonne from France, of Ibrahim Kalin from Turkey. Now we sometimes talking here several times per day, because, of course, we have not enough weapons. And we need it. We need it to continue our fightings. And I hope that all our partners now absolutely understand. And if they really want that Ukraine win, but win, not receiving — destroying our country, and survive, and be safe of our people, because Ukraine now paying extremely high price, extremely, because, every day, they have killed our children. Every day, they killed our people We need to survive. We need to survive our heroes, our soldiers. We need to survive the people who now keep the Mariupol, because we used every day to think that our heroes, our civilians go out from Mariupol. They are pressing to them. They block and keeping without food and water, without medicines But all the world can see that Ukrainians, its nation, which never stopped fighting for — because we are fighting for our land. We are fighting for our country. We are fighting for all democracy world.