Eight months after the start of the Russian war of aggression, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (44) testified to Moscow’s failure on a broad front. “Ukraine is breaking the so-called second strongest army in the world,” Zelensky said in his video message distributed in Kiev on Monday evening.
In view of the outbreak of the war exactly eight months ago, on February 24, the president said that Russian military influence has died out today. “The sense of defeat in Russia is getting stronger,” Zelensky said.
Russia’s political weight is history
The country once had political weight, but today it is becoming increasingly isolated internationally. Russia has not only thrown away its potential for the “madness” of a war against Ukraine and the entire free world.
The country must now beg Iran to make up drones and “various nonsense” about Ukraine to get concessions from the West, Zelensky said.
For example, Russia claims that Ukraine plans to use a “dirty” radioactive bomb in the war to defraud Moscow for further war crimes. According to Western experts, there is no evidence for this.
“Hardest winter in our history”
Zelensky reiterated that despite Russian attacks, Ukraine has defended its independence and is liberating its occupied territories every day. The entire country — including the Black Sea peninsula in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 — will be free, he stressed.
At the same time, the head of state warned not to give up the fight against Russia and continue to fight until victory. “It’s a tough road.” Zelensky, among other things, swore the country in view of the power plants destroyed by Russian missiles in a winter “that will be the most difficult in our history”.
Soon defeat of the Putin system?
The more Russia continues to lose its opportunities, the freer not only its neighbors will become — and Ukraine in the first place, Zelenskiy said. In view of a possible defeat of Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin’s (70) system, he said there would be freedom in Russia itself.
In violation of international law, the Russian president annexed the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions after the invasion of Ukraine. The nuclear force has declared that it will defend the areas declared Russian territory with all available means. (SDA/euc)