INTERNATIONAL: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visibly irritated, on Saturday ,March 26, has demanded Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stock piles and he has asked whether they were afraid of Moscow.

Several countries have promised to send anti-armour and anti-aircraft missiles as well as small arms but Zelenskiy has said Kyiv needed tanks, planes and anti-ship systems.

Zelenskiy has repeatedly insisted that Russia will seek to expand further into Europe if Ukraine falls.

NATO though does not back his request for a no-fly zone over Ukraine on the grounds this could provoke a wider war.

Earlier in the day, Zelenskiy has talked to Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and has expressed disappointment that Russian-made fighter aircraft in Eastern Europe had not yet been transferred to Ukraine, Zelenskiy's office has said in a statement.

"The price of procrastination with planes is thousands of lives of Ukrainians," the office has quoted him as saying.

Zelenskiy has also said Poland and the United States had both stated their readiness to make a decision on the planes.

Earlier this month, Washington has rejected a surprise offer by Poland to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. base in Germany to be used to replenish Ukraine's air force.