She said: “The other day, I heard the speech by secretary of state Blinken, who said that the Ukrainian people are so inspiring.
“And Im sorry, if his goal was to, you know, to say words of support, they didnt work, because their action was actually the opposite.
“We dont want to hear words from the world leaders saying that we are inspiring. We want to have the specific support that we need right now.
“We dont want to be inspiring, we want to be alive.
“And in order for that to happen, we do need support and we do need specific support.”
She added that she was appalled by the European Commission suggesting they would consider phasing out Russian gas and oil.
She said: “What the hell does phasing out mean?
“That means that European Union will continue to buy Russian gas and oil, just in smaller amounts.
“Dont the whole, you know, doesnt the whole Europe understand that every single euro that will be sent to Russia now, it will be used to buy weapons with which they will be continuing to kill Ukrainians, to kill our children?”
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