Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Iran must be punished for what he called its “complicity in Russian terror” and accused the regime in Tehran of helping to prolong the war and exacerbate its impact on food and energy supplies.
“If it was not for the Iranian supply of weapons to the aggressor, we would be closer to peace now,” Zelensky said Sunday evening in his daily address. Earlier, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told Zelensky on a telephone call that she will this week propose a financial aid package of as much as €18 billion ($17.9 billion) to