"For the first time in Mariupol, a child died of dehydration": Zelensky demands partner countries close the sky from bombing peaceful cities by the Russian Federation

He said this at a briefing, Espresso.TV reports.

"In Mariupol, for the first time in decades, perhaps for the first time since the Nazi invasion, a child died of dehydration. Hear me, today, dear partners, a child died of dehydration, in 2022", Zelensky said.

He added that the Ukrainians have been fighting for the 13th day.

"We are destroying the invaders wherever we can, but there is the sky. Hundreds of Russian cruise missiles, hundreds of combat aircraft of the invaders, hundreds of helicopters - yes, we are destroying them. Over the past 30 years, Russia has not lost as much aviation equipment as in these 13 days in Ukraine", the president emphasized.

According to him, the Russian Federation still has enough killing machines, missiles for terror, and 500-kilogram bombs.

"To drop them on us, on ordinary people, on Chernihiv, on Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv, Poltava and Zhytomyr, on dozens and dozens of Ukrainian cities, on millions of peaceful Ukrainian people. 13 days when we hear only promises, 13 days, when they tell us that help is about to be in the sky, there will be planes, they will be handed over to us", Zelensky said.

He stated that the blame for the death of people from airstrikes in Ukraine is on the Russian Federation, on those who issue and carry out these orders.

"The offense is on the invaders, but the responsibility for this is also on those who have not been able to accept for 13 days, somewhere in the West, somewhere in the cabinets, the necessary decision is obviously necessary. On those who still have not secured the Ukrainian sky from Russian assassins, who did not save Ukrainian cities from airstrikes, although they can", the president summed up.