Ukraine is still hanging on two years after Russia launched its invasion against it, but Parliament member Kira Rudik told Newsmax Sunday that the key to changing the trajectory of the war lies in ensuring her country has the weapons it needs to defeat Russia.

“We need weapons in the amounts that not only can we defend ourselves, but we can fight back,” Rudik said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda.” “This is why we are watching very closely what’s happening in the U.S. Congress; because we believe that the United States, as a leader of the democratic world, will be able to do the right thing and give us those weapons that we desperately need to defend our country, to defend our people, and give our military weapons in their hands so they would not face the enemy empty-handed.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the start of the war, not the higher numbers being claimed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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