Ukraine president again presses West for advanced weapons

By JAMEY KEATEN and JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking Western leaders to help Ukraine overcome Russia’s weapons advantage by supplying more modern tanks, artillery, ammunition, rockets and air defenses. In an address Monday to Group of Seven industrial country leaders, he also called on Russia to begin withdrawing from territory it’s occupying on Christmas. The Kremlin has rejected all previous appeals to reverse its Ukraine land grabs. Russia and Ukraine have engaged in no recent peace talks, prolonging a war that has killed and wounded tens of thousands of people and left dozens of Ukrainian cities and towns in ruins. G-7 leaders issued a statement supporting Zelenskyy’s call for Russia to stop attacking Ukraine and to leave the country.