"Waiting for winter": Zelenskyy spoke about Putin's plans regarding the war in Ukraine

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is not demonstrating any readiness to end the war; instead, Moscow is increasing the scale of its strikes and preparing for the winter period. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this while speaking with journalists on August 23, UNN reports.

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According to Zelenskyy, Russia is systematically attacking Ukrainian civilian enterprises and logistics infrastructure.

Putin does not want to end the war and is expanding the scale of the strikes. He is waiting for winter. They are striking our civilian enterprises, logistics, Ukrposhta, and have been burning Nova Poshta since 2022

Zelenskyy: strikes on Wildberries cost Russia trillions of rubles

At the same time, Ukrainian operations against Russian logistics have already inflicted significant economic losses on Moscow.

Zelenskyy explained that it was precisely Russian attacks on Ukrainian logistics that became one of the reasons for Ukraine's strikes on corresponding facilities in Russia. In particular, the Ukrainian leader commented on the operation against Wildberries, noting that the company is linked to the supply of military goods and provides significant financial revenues to Russia.

Why do we strike, in particular, Wildberries? Because it involves both the supply of military goods and substantial money for Russia. Our operation was very well calculated. It was precisely their logistical strikes that led us to respond to them logistically in the same way

According to him, Russia's direct losses from this operation alone amount to around one trillion rubles.

In this one operation against Wildberries alone, and only in terms of direct losses, Russia suffered around one trillion rubles; if we take into account the debts of this company, the related losses of other companies and individuals, and the need to restructure processes and rebuild Wildberries, then it is 3 trillion rubles

More than 60% of Russians want the war to end: Zelenskyy described the sentiment in Russia

Zelenskyy also said that the Ukrainian side is recording the social impact of such operations within Russia. According to statistics available to Ukraine, more than 60% of Russian society wants the war to end and a ceasefire regime to be established.

Many people in Russia want the war to end. They phrase it this way: "just let it end." In our view, the statistics are as follows: more than 60% of Russian society wants this war to end and a ceasefire. This means that public sentiment is moving in that direction, and the trends are obvious

The president also claims that support for the Russian authorities and the United Russia party is declining. According to him, the Russian authorities removed the Yabloko party from the elections after seeing an increase in its potential support.

They removed Yabloko from the elections because they expected Yabloko to receive a maximum of 3% or 4%, but then they looked at public sentiment, and there it was immediately at 11–12%, with a tendency to grow. They removed them simply so that there would be no alternative whatsoever to the war and his rule

We would like to remind you

Ukraine has already been systematically striking Russian logistics. The Defense Forces have disabled a number of major Wildberries logistics centers, and on August 22, one of Ozon's largest logistics hubs in the Samara region was hit for the first time using FP-1 long-range drones.

The next stage in forcing Russia to make peace will be strikes by Ukrainian ballistic weapons. Fire Point CEO and CTO Iryna Terekh reported that the company had completed ground tests of the FP-7 missile with a range of up to 200 km and was preparing to test it over Russian territory in the near future. At the same time, the company is working on the longer-range FP-9 missile, with a declared range of up to 800-850