Russia is waging a “full-scale war” against Ukraine and the battle in the east of the country is likely to be more intense, said Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, in a speech marking three months since beginning of the invasion, Roland reports. Olifant.
“The next few weeks of war will be difficult, and we need to be aware of that,” Zelensky said Monday in his nightly speech to the nation.
“But we have no choice but to fight and win, to liberate our land and our people.” “The toughest fighting situation today is in Donbas,” Zelensky said.
He highlighted the cities of Bakhmut, Popasna and Severodonetsk, where he said that “the occupiers have concentrated the most activity at the moment. They have committed a massacre and are trying to destroy all life, literally. No one has destroyed the Donbass as the Russian army is doing now “,
He said Russia had carried out about 1,500 missile attacks and more than 3,000 airstrikes against Ukraine during the first three months of the war.
In an independent address at the World Economic Forum in Davos – from which the Russians have been banned this year – he said that slow military aid is causing unnecessary deaths, as Ukrainians are “paying dearly for freedom and independence.” .
Zelensky said via the video link that tens of thousands of lives would have been saved if Kyiv had received “100 percent of our needs at the same time in February,” when Russia invaded.
He said 87 people had been killed in a Russian attack earlier this month on a military base in the north, in what would be one of the largest recorded attacks in the war.