Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for more air defence systems as he made a major trip abroad on Wednesday with a visit to Lithuania as part of a three-nation tour of the Baltics. Zelensky said Ukraine was badly in need of help to protect the country’s residents from the regular barrage of Russian missiles and drones. “Air defence systems are primarily among the things we lack,” he said after a meeting with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda in Vilnius. Zelensky said Russia fired at least 500 missiles and drones at Ukraine in the final days of 2023 and the first days of 2024. S…