Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reiterated his appeal to the international community to provide more weapons to repel the Russian invasion.

Zelenskyy said in a video message released on Monday that since the start of the invasion on February 24, the Russian military has launched 1,474 missile strikes, with the vast majority aimed at civilian targets.

He said in less than three months, there have been more than 3,000 airstrikes by Russian aircraft and helicopters. He asked, "What other country has withstood such a scale of strikes?"

Zelenskyy noted that Russian forces are focusing on the two eastern regions that they aim to place under full control.

He also said, "The Russian occupiers are trying very hard to show" that they allegedly won't give up "the occupied areas" of the Kharikiv region, the Kherson region in the south, the Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast and Donbas.

Zelenskyy said, "The coming weeks of the war will be difficult. And we must be aware of that. Yet we have no alternative but to fight. Fight and win. Free our land and our people."

The Ukrainian president thanked Western countries for their military aid.

But he added, "Every time we tell our partners that we need modern anti-missile weapons, modern combat aircraft, we are not just making a formal request."

He said, "We say that our request is the real lives of many people who would not have died if we had received all the weapons we are asking for."