The second day of the Munich Security Conference with a clear idea on the table: the rejection of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. An offensive that many countries and international leaders assume will be long and in which Ukraine will continue to need resources.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg underlined in this context the urgency to send more weapons to Ukraine: “Putin is planning more war, new offensives. So we must give Ukraine what they need to win.”

The same thesis held by the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, who says that to stop Putin’s imperialist plans it is necessary to align with the defense industry. “Now it’s time to speed up production and increase the production of standardized products that Ukraine already needs”, he defended.

Other leaders also warn: there is no time to lose. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, has stressed that “we absolutely need to intensify our support and our effort to help the resistance of the Ukrainian people.” Also the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has assured that without community support “Ukraine cannot defend itself.”

Even China, always with equal distance, assures that it will make efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine without there being winners or losers, but a recognition of its territorial integrity.

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zekenski, insisted again during his telematic intervention at the conference that the only way for Ukraine to have a chance to stop Russian aggression is by receiving the necessary weapons. “We have to do everything possible to achieve the collapse of Russian aggression before the end of the year, but only possible if Ukraine receives the necessary weapons“, he stated.

The truth is that everything that is decided this weekend in Munich will be fundamental for the Ukrainian people and the soldiers who fight every day in the trenches, and who urgently need more weapons. While the Kyiv troops fire 5,000 artillery shells a day, the Russians fire four times as many.