Ukraine's Defense and US Relations

And now, about air defense.

Well, if we can all see that we have nothing to intercept ballistic missiles with,

that without U.S. intelligence data, we don't even know what is

flying at us or when. That all the talk about finding other partners

who would give us intelligence data has turned out to be just talk.

No one has this intelligence data except the United States

of America. So maybe we should stop this madness

that is happening today, when every day we escalate the spiral

of conflict with the United States? This is idiocy. We,

while at war with Russia, also want to fall out with the

United States. How? Where on earth is

any common sense? Where is any responsibility toward

the state?

Of course, we can blame everyone.

Of course, we can fall out with the American

president, with

their party. It's not just the president.

When Ukraine criticizes them today, the entire Republican

Party, which has elections in three weeks, sits there and

thinks, "This is against us." These people will still be in Congress,

in the Senate. What will we do? How will we

secure missiles, intelligence, money,

sanctions—all that we need to survive.

What will we do? We can't even, I don't know,

do the simplest thing—appoint Ukraine's ambassador to the

United States. Where is Ukraine's ambassador to the

United States? How can we wage a war

and wait for help from our greatest ally,

the world's most powerful country, without even having

an ambassador there? This is complete madness and

irresponsibility. The previous ambassador they appointed

is now implicated in a corruption case.

Apparently, someone thinks this helped Ukraine's public image

in the United States.

That was a great choice. Well done! They wanted to shove in there, too,

Umerov, whose family lives in the U.S.

Show me another country in the world where the head of the Foreign

Intelligence Service, has a family that doesn't live in his own country.

Show me where such a country exists. The defense minister, the head of the

Foreign Intelligence Service, and their families live in another country.

There simply can't be anything like that anywhere.

And that head of the Foreign Intelligence Service doesn't even know

whether diesel fuel is being traded there or not. Well, because he probably has

some other interests altogether. And this is our head of the Foreign Intelligence Service

and

the negotiating group. And as a result, we don't have any ambassador in

the U.S., none whatsoever. Who is supposed to negotiate ballistic missiles?

Who is supposed to negotiate intelligence? Through media statements,

through powerful speeches? That's not how it works.

You are destroying Ukraine. Missiles are hitting our cities, and our

power plants are burning, and—