Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday issued another impassioned appeal to Western nations to supply advanced weapons in the fight against Russia, this time, asking for anti-missile defence systems.

The 44-year-old, who had earlier called for heavy weapons from the West to take the fight to Russia, urged Western countries for anti-missile defence systems to protect the lives of Ukrainian citizens from misfiring and inaccurate, dated Russian missiles.

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“Even though there are fewer and fewer modern missiles in Russia with each passing day, Ukraine’s need for such systems remains,” Zelensky said on Tuesday during a televised address.

“Because Russia still has enough Soviet types of missiles, which are even more dangerous. They are many times less accurate, and therefore many times more threatening civilian objects and ordinary residential buildings,” the actor-turned-politician explained.

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Zelensky’s plea comes hours after the Deputy Defence Minister of Ukraine, Hanna Maliar, said that Kyiv had received only 10% of the arms and ammunition it had requested from the West, warning that further delays may cost Ukraine the war.

“Whatever efforts we put, no matter how professional our army is, without the assistance of our Western partners Ukraine will not be able to win this war,” Maliar had warned.

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The warning comes at a time when Russia has stepped up its offensive on the contested Donbas region in the east of Ukraine, where two Moscow-backed self-proclaimed republics, the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic have claimed independence.

With Russia having retreated from other parts of Ukraine and concentrating all its might on the Donbas, Zelensky has warned that outcomes in the region could well go on to influence the course of the rest of the war, which, after more than a 100 days, seems no closer to an end than it was three months ago.