A victory for Vladimir Putin could trigger World War Three, Ukraine’s prime minister has warned as concerns grow for Kyiv which is “running out of missiles” to defend itself from Russia.
Ukraine said it hit military targets in Russian-occupied Crimea after Putin's troops stepped up ballistic missile attacks.
Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal visited Washington DC on Wednesday, ahead of a vote in Congress on an aid package worth $60 billion and said: "We need this money yesterday, not tomorrow, not today."
It comes as President Zelensky warned that Ukraine is "running out of missiles" while Russian forces are now able to fire 10 times as many artillery shells as the Ukrainian army.
A victory for Vladimir Putin could trigger World War Three, Ukraine’s prime minister has warned as concerns grow for Kyiv which is “running out of missiles” to defend itself from Russia
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On Saturday, The House of Representatives is set to vote on the Ukraine package which has seen a series of knock backs by opposition from the Republican party.
Shmyhal expressed "careful optimism" that US lawmakers would pass the bill.
"If we will not protect... Ukraine will fall," he added. "So the global, the global system of security will be destroyed... and all the world will need to find... a new system of security," he told the BBC.
"Or, there will be many conflicts, many such kinds of wars, and in the end of the day, it could lead to the Third World War."
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Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said: "Ukraine has to not only fight to provide profit for the Americans but it also has to fight to the last Ukrainian and is loaded up with debt — the favourite colonial policy of the United States of America."
Zelensky said it would be a "disgrace" if Congress approved funding for Israel and not for Ukraine.
"Our Ukrainian sky and the sky of our neighbours deserve the same security," he told a meeting of European leaders on Wednesday night.
The Ukrainian president has previously warned that if Russia won the conflict, it could next invade Poland.
Vladimir Putin continues to face global backlash to his war in UkraineREUTERSHowever, Russian officials have hit back at such claims as Western "scaremongering".
Putin rejected suggestions that Russia might one day attack Eastern Europe as "complete nonsense".
Russia has never attacked a country within Nato.