Zelenskiy says war to stagnate without more advanced arms

Bloomberg

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the war may stagnate if deliveries of advanced weapons from Ukraine’s allies don’t accelerate, and that the fighting is “very fierce” in the east.
Russia continued its assault on Sievierodonetsk, shelling the city and surrounding villages as it pushes to capture the Ukrainian government’s last major foothold in the eastern region of Luhansk. The regional governor said Russian troops now control 80% of the city.
Russian forces shelled a chemical plant where 540 to 560 local people are sheltering, Oleksandr Stryuk, head of Sievierodonetsk military administration, said on national television. There is a stockpile of provisions at the shelter. Ukrainian forces are fighting to maintain their foothold in Sievierodonetsk and are evacuating civilians sporadically but conditions are “above difficult,” Stryuk said.
Luhansk’s regional governor Serhiy Haiday said Russian forces have also been shelling and storming the villages around Sievierodonetsk. The military situation in Ukraine may stagnate and more people can die if advanced weapon deliveries from the West aren’t sped up, Zelenskiy said in an online press conference to Danish reporters from Kyiv. “We are losing people, that is the biggest problem” Zelenskiy said.
Ukraine needs adequate weapons to be able to hit targets from long distances within its territory, even as he ruled out attacking objects in Russia. Without that kind of weaponry, both sides keep moving the frontline in small pushes from 1 to 5 kilometers in either direction. Zelenskiy reiterated that the war will only end when all foreign troops leave the country and its territorial integrity is restored.
Air defenses blocked several missiles over the Ternopil region of western Ukraine, governor Volodymyr Trush said on Telegram. One missile, launched from the southeast, was downed in the neighboring Lviv region and its wreckage fell on a brick factory, causing four casualties including one child, according to Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi.
Three Russian cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea were knocked down on Tuesday afternoon by anti-aircraft missile systems, the Air Force Command said on Facebook.
Meanwhile, The European Court of Human Rights unanimously condemned Russia’s Foreign Agent law as a violation of the freedoms of assembly and association, saying the measure used “capriciously imposed fines” against civil society groups. It ordered the Kremlin to pay damages and costs totalling more than 1.1 million euros in response to applications by 73 Russian NGOs labeled “foreign agents” under the 2012 law.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia no longer recognizes ECHR decisions after President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Saturday declaring its rulings after March 15 unenforceable in the country.