“Every day you get up and call your loved ones to find out if they are alive,” says Ukraine’s special envoy for Latin America.

Ruslan SpirinThe Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s Special Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean specified this Saturday that his country was going through a “full-scale war” but stressed that Ukrainian forces had stopped Russia’s occupying forces.

AT News extension, Ruslan Spirin commented on the situation in his country after a six-month invasion of forces Russia: “Every day you get up and don’t go to the shower, but call your loved ones, parents, children, relatives to ask if they are alive or if your house is not damaged. And so every day for six months. You can imagine the psychological situation in which the country lives in conditions of a full-scale war.”

“We are proud that we stopped this aggressor-occupier, who wanted to conquer our country in three or four days, establish his own different regime and show the world that he has enough strength to be a major supplier of weapons. It turns out that it does not exist, this largest army in the world, as expected, could not with a smaller army, 30 times smaller, because the population Ukraine They stood up as one, and we stopped this Russian invasion.”

“We will win”

Ruslan Spirin specified that although the forces Russia remain on 20% of the territory Ukrainenow they are delayed and did not have time to advance more than a kilometer.

“During all this time, more than eight million people left the country as refugees and another six million moved from one place to other central regions of the country. Over the past two months, five and a half million have returned. People understand and there is confidence that we will win, there is no other way and there is no doubt. People are coming back to rebuild the economy,” he said.

In addition, Ruslan Spirin stressed that the economy Ukraine returned to record growth, as before the war with Russia.

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