There is a feeling in society that “we have won”, but there is no victory yet, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The military turned to President Volodymyr Zelensky with a request to increase the number of those mobilized to the front. The head of state said this in a press conference on Wednesday, August 23.
“I’ll be honest: the military approached me with this to give me the opportunity to mobilize more. I can’t tell you anything more,” he said, answering reporters’ questions about a possible increase in mobilization.
He added that “on the issue of mobilization, it is very important to understand who is doing it and how.”
“Therefore, the issue of military registration and enlistment offices, a very important issue of medical commissions on military registration and enlistment offices (VVK, – ed.) – you need to speed up the processes very quickly, in as soon as possible, put things in order, and then start talking about how to increase – how and with whom,” said the president.
Zelensky also noted the mood in society that “we have won.”
“Everyone just started to forget, let’s be honest, we relaxed a bit thinking that we had won. We didn’t win, I think the first step, we won by the fact that we didn’t let our state be destroyed. And the fact that they “We cannot destroy now, and this fact is very important. This is an important victory, both for our military and for our people, who stayed here and, excuse me, plowed for it. victory. Is this the last victory? No,” the president said.
Recall that the Ministry of Defense announced the danger of disclosing wartime losses. Information on the number of dead and wounded could be used by the enemy to calculate possible further actions against Ukraine, the department explained.
Earlier, The New York Times, citing American officials, estimated the total number of wounded and killed soldiers from Ukraine and Russia at nearly 500,000, most of them Russians.
Source: korrespondent
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