President Zelenskyy also said that to protect the country's energy infrastructure, Ukraine might need to attack Russian energy infrastructure.
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00:00President Zelensky says Ukraine needs at least 25 Patriot air defense systems to fully defend
00:07its airspace.
00:11In his first news conference since returning from the United States, the Ukrainian president
00:16also called on Western partners to send more F-16 warplanes than those already pledged.
00:24He claimed a six-month delay in military assistance from the U.S. meant that Kyiv's forces lost
00:30the initiative on the front line.
00:33Meanwhile, Zelensky also led a moment of silence for those who died in Ukraine's war with Russia
00:40while he attended a prayer event on the day of Ukrainian statehood.
00:46The Ukrainian president spoke at the square in front of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv,
00:52where he was joined by heads of Ukrainian churches, religious organizations, various
00:58parliamentary representatives and foreign diplomats.
01:01The national holiday was first introduced in 2021 on the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's
01:28independence and on the baptism day of Kyiv Rus' Ukraine, when Christianity was first
01:34introduced to the region.