Ukrainian MP as jet planes fly overhead: 'Our men and women died for this freedom'

 Ukrainian leader Lesia Vasylenko was urging the international community to allow help on friday once she was interrupted by the sound of jets flying overhead.

"If this continues at the extent it's happening now, these air strikes happening, the tanks rolling in, country won't be able to represent long against such a colossal Russian aggression, and that we would like assistance," she told CNN from Kyiv. She extra that more sanctions are needed, additionally as more weapons in Ukraine and also the closure of the country' airspace.

She paused for a while, glancing out of her window off camera. "I'm sorry ... as we speak, there have been many planes flying within the direction of the city. and that we understand from the President' address simply several minutes past that air strikes are to start right regarding now," she said, with a rumbling noise in the background.

"We are all exhausted from this, as a result of we've got helicopters, we have airplanes, fighter jets, flying all around all the time. and each time we hear a noise, it' like searching of the window, wherever is it going? Is it aiming to hit or is it aiming to miss?"

She extra that despite the fear, she additionally felt religion "in the Ukrainian army and within the Ukrainian people."

"People here are brave and don't seem to be up to jettisoning their country," she said. "We don't need to measure below somebody' rule, whoever it is. we have a tendency to are a free people. we've got fought for our freedom. Our men and ladies have died for this freedom."