'How many more missiles have to fall...' asks Zelensky appealing for no-fly zone over Ukraine

"Can you imagine when you called your friends, your friendly nation, and you ask, Please close the sky, close the airspace, please stop the bombing," said Zelensky in the Canadian parliament.

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday (March 14), while virtually addressing Canada`s Parliament, once again appealed for a no-fly zone over Ukraine and expressed gratitude to Ottawa for support at this time of crisis.

"Can you imagine when you called your friends, your friendly nation, and you ask, 'Please close the sky, close the airspace, please stop the bombing.' How many more missiles have to fall on our cities until you make this happen? And they ... express their deep concerns about the situation. When we talked with our partners, they said, `Please, hold on, hold on a little longer,`" he said.

"I know you support Ukraine. We`ve been friends with you ... but also I would like you to understand and I would like you to feel this, what we feel every day. We want to live and we want to be victorious. We want to prevail for the sake of life," Zelensky added.

"You`ve offered your help, your assistance, at our earliest request, you supply us with the military assistance, with humanitarian assistance, you imposed severe sanctions, serious sanctions. At the same time, we see that unfortunately, they did not bring the end to the war," he said in the speech.

While giving an analogy, Zelenskky asked the Canadian lawmakers to imagine how they would personally react to an invasion of the country`s own cities. Zelenskyy tells the parliament to imagine Ottawa airport bombed and Vancouver under siege.