Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with the Associated Press, said that the war with Russia has entered a new stage.
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We are in a new stage of the war, and this is a fact,” Zelensky told the AP during a trip to Kharkov. – Winter itself is a new stage of the war.
As the agency notes, with the onset of winter, military leaders face new, but already familiar problems: low temperatures, bare fields where the military has nowhere to hide. The threat of large-scale Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukrainian cities has again arisen. According to Zelensky, in winter, fighting takes place not only on the front line, but inside cities.
The long-awaited offensive, which began after the delivery of tens of billions of dollars in military aid to the West, did not lead to the expected breakthroughs, the AP recalls. Now some Ukrainian officials are concerned whether further aid will be as generous.
Answering the question whether he was satisfied with the results of the counter-offensive, Zelensky said: Look, we are not retreating – I am satisfied. We are fighting the second army in the world, I am pleased.
However, he added:
We are losing people, I am not happy. We didn’t get all the weapons we wanted, I can’t be happy about that, but I can’t complain too much either. We wanted faster results. From this point of view, unfortunately, we did not achieve what we wanted. And that’s a fact,” he said.
According to him, Ukraine did not receive all the weapons it needed from its allies, and the limited number of armed forces also prevented a rapid offensive.
There is not enough strength to quickly achieve the desired results. But this does not mean that we should appear that we should give up,” Zelensky said. – We are confident in what we are doing. We fight for what we are entitled to.
According to Zelensky, he fears that the war in Ukraine will take a back seat to Israel’s war with Hamas, as this could lead to a reduction in Western military assistance.
Given the constant shortage of weapons and ammunition, the Ukrainian president considers the most important next stage for Ukraine to increase domestic weapons production.
A significant part of Ukraine’s budget is allocated for this, but this volume of production is certainly not enough to turn the tide of the war. Now Zelensky is hoping Western allies, including the United States, will offer him lucrative loans and contracts to achieve this goal.
This is a way out,” Zelensky said, adding that nothing scares Russia more than a militarily self-sufficient Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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