According to the Kremlin's plans, the attack on Ukraine, which was declared a "special operation", would have led to the country's capitulation within a few weeks. Now that the war has been going on for eight months, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is still in office and is carrying out what Moscow has lost since the attack.
Eight months after the start of the Russian war of aggression, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj attested to failure on a broad front in Moscow. "Ukraine is breaking the so-called second strongest army in the world," said Zelenskyj in his video message distributed in Kyiv on Monday evening. With a view to the start of the war exactly eight months ago, on February 24, the President said that Russia's military influence had fizzled out today.
"The feeling of defeat in Russia is getting stronger," said Zelenskyj. The country once had political weight, today it is becoming increasingly isolated internationally. Russia has not only thrown away its potential for the "insaneness" of a war against Ukraine and the entire free world. Zelenskyy said the country had to beg Iran for drones and invent "various nonsense" about Ukraine in order to get concessions from the West. For example, Russia claims that Ukraine is planning to use a "dirty" radioactive bomb in the war in order to frame Moscow for further war crimes. According to Western experts, there is no evidence of this.
Zelenskyy once again emphasized that despite the Russian attacks, Ukraine has defended its independence and is liberating its occupied territories every day. The whole country - including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014 - will be free, he stressed. At the same time, the head of state warned not to let up in the fight against Russia and to continue fighting until victory. "It's a difficult path."
Among other things, Zelenskyj swore the country to a winter "which will be the hardest in our history" in view of the energy plants destroyed by Russian missiles. The more Russia continues to lose its opportunities, the freer not only its neighbors will become - and Ukraine in the first place, Zelensky said. In view of a possible defeat of the system of Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin, he said there would also be freedom in Russia itself. In a breach of international law, the Russian president annexed the Luhansk, Donetsk, Cherson and Zaporizhia regions after the invasion of Ukraine. The nuclear power has declared that it will use all available means to defend the regions declared Russian territory.
