Ukrainian President Zelensky promises to make winter 'painful for Russia' in UN speech

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Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have
no choice but to make it painful for Russia too. And that's exactly why we say that these
collation steps are important, are needed before winter, now. Support, packages,
We need diplomacy and we need strength, and step by step we are closing the gaps in both.
Yesterday we met with the President of the United States and this is exactly what we discussed.
Unfortunately, we have not had a chance to speak directly with the leader of China,
who is in America today, and our weapons are working for this, only for this. In eight months
of this year, Russia used 63,000 attack drones of different types against Ukraine, our people.
And more than 7,700 of them were jet-powered shahids, truly destructive and very dangerous
weapons. 17 million square kilometers of its own. The Russians launch jet-powered shahids
every hour, every hour, against our cities, our economy, our infrastructure. Our combat
aircraft are fighting them 24-7, and this is part of Russia's strategy to create an air threat
every hour, to make life harder for the economy, and to disrupt people's lives,
and to stop children from being able to study, just to study at school. Wherever it spreads,
it brings only pain. Our soldiers have already successfully tested four new
jet-powered interceptor drones against Russian jet-powered shahids. So we are scaling up
production, and we will build, of course we will build protection against the threat too.
We have also launched an anti-ballistic program, FREYA, together with our partners,
one that can help any freedom-loving nation follow Ukraine.
