Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday helium looked guardant to “peacetime” for his state adjacent year, portion his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin warned the warfare could resistance on.
“I judge that Ukrainians volition beryllium the astir influential adjacent twelvemonth arsenic well, but already successful peacetime,” Zelenskyy said, speaking successful a pre-recorded video aft being named the astir almighty idiosyncratic successful Europe during the annual POLITICO 28 ranking gala.
“The Ukrainian military, who protects america each connected their battlefields, are No. 1,” helium added, thanking “all our friends successful Europe who assistance america support stability” and “help millions unrecorded done this unspeakable time.”
His remarks came after, earlier connected Wednesday, Putin said helium expected the “special subject operation” — Moscow’s preferred word for its full-scale penetration of Ukraine — to beryllium “a agelong process,” successful a uncommon notation to the war’s imaginable duration.
Putin besides said that the hazard of atomic warfare was mounting, according to Reuters, but added: “We haven’t gone mad, we recognize what atomic weapons are.”
“We person these means successful much precocious and modern signifier than immoderate different atomic state … But we aren’t astir to tally astir the satellite brandishing this limb similar a razor,” helium said.
Despite facing respective subject setbacks successful caller weeks — including the liberation of Kherson, which had been occupied by the Russian service since precocious February — Putin said helium would not telephone up much reservists.
In September and October, astir 300,000 Russian service reservists were mobilized pursuing a telephone from the Russian president.
Last week, a elder Ukrainian authoritative said that betwixt 10,000 and 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the commencement of Russia’s penetration connected February 24.
In November, U.S. quality reported that “well over” 100,000 Russian soldiers had been killed oregon injured successful the war.
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