Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy accused Russia of trying to destroy his country and warned that Moscow is on the path of self-destruction.
In a video message, Zelenskiyy said his country is fighting for life against tanks, planes and mortars that Russia is using to destroy Ukraine.
"But Russia is also destroying itself. Every shot against Ukraine, this is a step that Russia takes to destroy itself, to self-isolate ... everybody leaves Russia now, all who can think," he said in the video message, reports The Guardian.
Programmers, businessmen, and artists are leaving Russia, he said and claimed that the country has never experienced such a blow to the human capital for decades.
"This doesn’t worry us, it is not our problem. Our issue is to preserve ourselves, our people."
He said his country understands it does not have an open door to NATO membership, and that it has to cooperate with associations that can help and protect Ukraine. "If we cannot enter through open doors, then we must cooperate with the associations with which we can, which will help us, protect us ... and have separate guarantees."
Meanwhile, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said the invasion of Ukraine created “a new security reality” in Europ and spoke about the need to reset military future of NATO in line with this reality. "We will also consider major increases to our air and naval deployments, strengthening our integrated air and missile defence, reinforcing our cyber defences and holder more and larger exercises," he was quoted as saying.
