The idea that Mr. Putin is winning is nothing more than a "feeling": Zelensky for The Economist
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Zelenskiy argues that Russia is not winning the war and continues to suffer heavy losses, contrary to popular belief; he warns against complacency among Western allies.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that the idea that Russia is is winning the almost two-year war is just a "feeling" and that Moscow is still suffering heavy losses on the battlefield. In an interview with The Economist said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, reports UNN.
Maybe we did not succeed [in 2023] as the world wanted. Maybe we didn't do it as as fast as some people imagined. ...but the idea that Mr. Putin is winning is is nothing more than a "feeling."
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The reality, Zelenskiy said, is that Russian forces are still still suffering heavy casualties in places like Avdiivka, from which he recently recently returned from.
British defense intelligence sources estimate that on current trends trends, Russia will suffer more than 500,000 casualties, killed and wounded, by 2025.
"Thousands and thousands of dead Russian soldiers, and no one even took them away." He emphasizes that Mr. Putin's army failed to take a single major city in 2023, while Ukraine managed to break the Russian blockade of the Black Sea and is now delivering millions of tons of grain to the newly while Ukraine has managed to break through the Russian blockade of the Black Sea and is now shipping millions of tons of grain via a new route that includes Ukraine's southern coast. "A huge result!" the president declares.
However, Zelenskyy noted with sadness that the West had lost its sense of urgency to help Ukraine, and many Ukrainians have lost their sense of existential threat, Zelenskyy said. Zelensky said. So he, as president, is trying to restore both of these aspects.
In a war that has become a resource mobilization exercise, the belief among supporters of Ukraine's supporters that victory has become impossible risks depriving Ukraine of the money and of the money and weapons it needs to win. And then fatalism can become a prophecy.
That is why the President considers 2024 so important. As Russia's military efforts are being deployed and Ukraine's resources are being depleted, the attention of America and many European countries in the and many European countries are turning their attention to domestic politics in an election year.
Zelenskyy insists that European countries should lobby America to support Ukraine for the sake of their own security.
The intelligence services of several European countries have begun [to consider] the possibility of of an attack on their territory by Russia... Even those countries that were not part of the of the USSR.
The Ukrainian president also warned that if Russia sends signals of the desire to freeze the conflict, as some Western media report, "it is not because they are righteous people, but because they do not have enough missiles, ammunition or or trained troops. They need this pause. To restore all their strength. And then turn the page on this war with all their might."
