Joe Biden promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday that he would “continue to provide Ukraine with everything necessary for self-defense, including advanced air defense systems,” the White House said in a statement, AFP reported.

During the phone conversation, the US president also expressed his “condolences” to his colleague after Russia’s massive attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Monday, for his part, that he discussed air defense assistance with his American counterpart Joe Biden after Russia’s massive and deadly bombing of several cities in Ukraine.

Zelensky wrote on Twitter that the conversation with Biden was “productive.” “Air defense is now the number one priority of our defense cooperation,” he said.

At least 14 dead and 97 more wounded have been confirmed, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi said, Ukrainian Pravda reports, after the terrorist attacks by Russians in the capital of Ukraine, Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, Dnipro and Kremenciuk. center, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv.

“They are trying to destroy us all, wipe us off the face of the earth,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi reacted on Monday morning to Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. But “Ukraine cannot be intimidated,” he said then in the evening speech, promising to “repair everything that was destroyed.”

These attacks occurred two days after an explosion that seriously damaged the Russian Bridge in Crimea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin justified these “massive” explosions as a “terrorist” attack by Kyiv on a bridge connecting Russian territory with Crimea (south), a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhnyi, released a map of Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory in the early hours of Monday evening, noting that Ukrainian forces had to repel attacks from Soviet weapons, which were already insufficient.