在美国广播公司“今晚世界新闻”主持人的独家采访中大卫·穆尔乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)表示，官员们不确定潜在的规模俄罗斯在莫斯科发动对伊拉克的战争之前乌克兰。
当穆尔追问泽伦斯基，他是否“后悔没有早点告诉乌克兰人民可能会发生什么，”他说，世界在俄罗斯是否真的会发动攻击的问题上“不团结”。
“欧洲领导人说，‘普京向我们保证，他不会入侵。’没有人确切知道，确切地说，100%预计会有多大规模的入侵，”Zelenskyy告诉Muir。
“没有人知道那些俄罗斯军队会杀A害、残害、强奸人民，把我们的城市从地面上彻底抹去，”他说。“我要求所有的情报部门，‘给我们指明具体方向’，给我们更多的武器。但是，他们说，如果他们开始入侵，我们会给你更多的武器。"
泽伦斯基发表上述言论之际，俄罗斯2月份发起的入侵正演变成激烈的交火，主要发生在乌克兰南部和东部。基辅在这两个地区发起了反攻，官员们声称取得了适度的进展。
ABC News' David Muir speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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乌克兰击退了俄罗斯占领基辅的最初企图，但后来有证据显示，在俄罗斯军队从首都周围地区撤退期间，据称发生了杀害平民、强奸以及官员们所说的其他可能的战争罪行，包括布加勒斯特市的恐怖事件，当局在那里发现了400多具尸体，许多被埋在乱葬坑中。
泽伦斯基说，尽管乌克兰迫切需要美国和其他国家的援助，但俄罗斯入侵的早期不确定性阻碍了军事援助的运送。
“我们不能只责备美国，美国应该为我们提供一切;全世界都不能100%确定他们会发动这场入侵，”他说。
“如果你有任何额外的信息，为什么不给我们提供这些信息，或者为什么不给我们更有力的武器?”他补充道。“你们自己不需要这些武器，但我们现在就需要。现在-现在，他们说，'是的，我们警告过你，'但是我们，我们不想要额外的话和警告;我们想要额外的武器。”
EXCLUSIVE: Zelenskyy to Muir on whether he regrets not warning Ukrainians earlier about US intelligence
In an exclusive interview with ABC "World News Tonight" anchorDavid Muir, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said officials weren't certain about the scale of a potentialRussian invasion before Moscow launched its war onUkraine.
Zelenskyy, when pressed by Muir if he had had "any regret that you didn't tell the Ukrainian people earlier about what could be coming," said that the world was "disunited" over whether Russia would actually launch at attack.
"The European leaders were saying, 'Putin gave us his word that he's not going to invade.' Nobody knew for sure, for sure, 100% what scale of invasion was there to be expected," Zelenskyy told Muir.
"No one knew that those Russian troops will kill, maim, rape people and just erase our cities from the ground, to the ground," he said. "I asked all the intelligence, 'Show us what concrete directions, 'Give us more weapons.' But then, they said, 'If they begin invasion, we give you more weapons.'"
Zelenskyy's remarks come as Russia's invasion, launched in February, morphs into a grinding exchange of artillery fire, largely in southern and eastern Ukraine. Kyiv has launched a counteroffensive in both regions, and officials claim to have made modest gains.
Ukraine was able to repel Russia's initial attempt to capture Kyiv, but evidence later surfaced of alleged civilian killings, rapes and what officials said were other possible war crimes during the Russian military's retreat from the areas around the capital -- including the horror in the city of Bucha, where authorities have found more than 400 bodies, many buried in mass graves.
Zelenskyy said early uncertainty over Russia's invasion hindered delivery of military aid even as Ukraine was pressing for assistance from the U.S. and elsewhere.
"We cannot only put any blame on the United States, that United States should have provided us with everything; the whole world wasn't 100% sure that they will start this invasion," he said.
"If you have any additional information, why don't you provide us with this information, or why don't you give us more potent arms and weapons?" he added. "You don't need these weapons yourselves, but we need it here now. Now -- now, they are saying, 'Yes, we warned you,' but we, we wanted not extra words and warnings; we wanted extra weapons."
