(28 May 2024)
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Brussels, Belgium – 28 May 2024
1. Wide of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arriving, shaking hands with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and posing in front of flags
2. De Croo and Zelenskyy entering room and sitting down to sign a bilateral security agreement between Ukraine and Belgium
3. Close of document
4. Various of De Croo and Zelenskyy signing
5. Zelenskyy and De Croo shaking hands and posing for photo
6. Close of Zelenskyy
7. Wide of Zelenskyy and De Croo
STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Brussels on Tuesday to sign a bilateral security agreement with Belgium and inspect the F-16 fighter jets that Belgium will send to Ukraine later this year.
He is on a whirlwind two-day tour of Spain, Belgium and Portugal to drum up other support.
European Union defense ministers are meeting in Brussels Tuesday to try again to overcome Hungary’s objections to providing billions of euros in military aid to Kyiv, in its third year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.
Zelenskyy successfully secured Monday a Spanish pledge for additional air defense missiles to help fight the nearly 3,000 bombs that he says Russia launches against Ukraine every month.
Still, Ukraine urgently needs another seven U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems to stop Russia from hitting the power grid and civilian areas, as well as military targets, with devastating glide bombs that wreak wide destruction, Zelenskyy said.
Two Patriot systems are needed to protect the northeastern Kharkiv region, where the Kremlin’s forces launched a cross-border offensive on May 10 that left Ukrainian troops reeling, Zelenskyy said.
The death toll from a glide bomb attack on a Kharkiv shopping mall Saturday rose to 18, regional Gov Oleh Syniehubov said Monday, with five people still missing.
The onslaught unfolding as the weather improves has brought Ukraine’s biggest military test since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Slow deliveries of support by its Western partners, especially a lengthy delay in U.S. military aid, have left Ukraine at the mercy of Russia’s bigger army and air force.
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