Every Russian missile against our cities is an argument why Ukraine needs more weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Thursday.

“Today, we withstood another massive missile strike by terrorists. A strike that fully confirms everything we have been talking about with our partners both yesterday and since the beginning of our diplomatic marathon. This evil, this Russian aggression can and should be stopped only with adequate weapons. The terrorist state will not understand anything else,” he said.

“Weapons on the battlefield. Weapons that protect our skies. New sanctions against Russia, i.e. political and economic weapons. And legal weapons - we need to work even harder to establish a tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine,” he added.

According to Zelensky, “every Russian missile against our cities, every Iranian drone used by terrorists is an argument why we need more weapons. Only weapons neutralize terrorists.”

“Today, thanks to the air defense systems provided to Ukraine and the professionalism of our warriors, we managed to shoot down most of the Russian missiles and Shaheds. These are at least hundreds of lives saved and dozens of infrastructure facilities preserved,” the president noted.

He noted the expansion of the "tank coalition." “Already 12 countries are in our ‘tank coalition.’ And I am grateful to everyone in the world who really counteracts terror with us, who accelerates the delivery of the necessary means of defense to Ukraine and who is ready to increase sanctions pressure on the terrorist state," Zelensky stressed.