21 minutes agoZelensky: The offensive is going slowly, it's not a Hollywood movie.
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that the progress on the battlefield has been “slower than the” needed, weeks after Ukraine's military offensive to regain areas occupied by Russia. Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not like that, he told the BBC. [...]
Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not like that,” he told the BBC.
Whatever's at stake is people's lives”.
Ukraine says its counteroffensive has recovered eight villages so far in the southern region of Zaporizhja and Donetsk in the east.
Zelensky said the military push was not going easily because 200,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory had been mined by Russian forces.
“Whatever some may want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance in the field of battle in the way that we consider best”, Zelensky added
He reinforced the need for Ukraine to provide security guarantees from NATO, but said that ultimately the goal was membership in the defence alliance.
Secretary - General NATO made it clear this week that no plan was on the table to extend an invitation to Ukraine at next month's summit in Lithuania. ”[Jens] Stoltenberg knows my position,” said Ukrainian leader “We've told them many times: “Don't pull the ground down from our feet”
The Ukrainian leader again arranged for Ukraine to take the US-made F-16 and said he believed fighter pilots could begin training as early as August and that the first aircraft could arrive six or seven months later.
