Ukrainian prime minister cautions of third world war if Ukraine loses war

Speaking to the BBC, the Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, warned of the possibility of a third world war.

Addressing the issue of US security assistance, he said: “We need this money yesterday, not tomorrow, not today.”

“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.

“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,” he said.

This is not the first time Ukraine has issued such an alarming warning about the consequences of its potential defeat.

Last year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that if Russia won the conflict, it could next invade Poland, triggering World War Three.

But Kremlin officials have ridiculed such claims as Western scaremongering. Last month President Vladimir Putin dismissed suggestions that Russia might one day attack Eastern Europe as “complete nonsense”.

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