Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that NATO member countries themselves have created a narrative that allegedly closing the sky over Ukraine will provoke direct Russian aggression against the Alliance.

"A NATO summit was hold today, a weak summit, a disconcerted summit. The summit that shows that not everybody views the fight for freedom for Europe as the goal number one. All the intelligence agencies of NATO countries are well aware of the plans of the enemy, they also confirmed that the Russian Federation wants to continue the offensive... For nine days we see a brutal war: they destroy our cities, shell our people, our children... Knowing that new strikes and casualties are inevitable, NATO deliberately took decision not to close the sky over Ukraine," Zelensky said in a video address on Friday night.

"We believe that NATO countries themselves created the narrative that closing the sky over Ukraine would allegedly provoke a direct aggression" against the North Atlantic Alliance, he said.

According to Zelensky, this is self-hypnosis of those who are "weak and insecure internally, although they can wield weapons many times stronger than we have."

He also said that NATO had to think about the people, and stated that "all the people who die from this day will also die because of you, because of your weakness, your disunity."

"All the alliance has bothered to do at this point is insert 50 tonnes of diesel fuel for Ukraine into the system of its own procurement. Probably it is so that we can burn the Budapest Memorandum, so that it burns better. But it burned down for us already in the fire of the Russian troops. Is this NATO we wanted, is this the Alliance you built?" he said.

In addition, he said that by refusing to make the no-fly zone, today the NATO leadership gave the green light for further bombardment of Ukrainian cities and villages.

"I don't know whom you can defend and whether you can defend your own countries, member countries: you can't buy us off with liters of fuel for liters of our blood shed for our common Europe, for our common freedom, for our common future," he said.

At the same time, Zelensky expressed gratitude to Ukraine's friends in NATO, to the partners who he said constitute a majority in the bloc, "and that's why we feel we are not alone. We keep on fighting, we will protect our country. We will free our land thanks to our heroes."