The Ukrainian President spoke this Friday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who reaffirmed Germany’s commitment to continue providing military aid to Ukraine.
“Any blackmail from Russia must be met with a firm response,” said the Ukrainian President in his most recent message to the country, in which he called on Europe and the United States to work with Ukraine to achieve a “true peace” that does not implies the satisfaction of the conditions imposed by Putin for the end of the war.
The Ukrainian President spoke this Friday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who reaffirmed Germany’s commitment to continue providing military aid to Ukraine.
“The Russian dictator is not interested in ending the war and uses all international contacts to spread threats and ultimatums,” says a statement from Zelensky’s administration about the conversation between the two leaders.
“Only a Ukraine in a strong position can force it to abandon its intentions”, is added in the statement from the Ukrainian Presidency.
In a message posted on social media about his phone conversation with Scholz, Zelensky defended the need to combine diplomacy with diplomacy. “strength of arms” to achieve a just peace.
The Ukrainian President had already criticized Scholz’s approach to Putin, considering that “Opens a Pandora’s Box” for similar contacts that would weaken Russia’s isolation.
Ukraine also attacked Russian territory in the early hours of the morning with unmanned aerial vehicles. On the battlefield, Russia continues to advance around the city of Kurakhov and other areas of the Donetsk front line in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian war analytics platform DeepState reported.
These advances put Ukrainian troops defending the Kurakhov area at risk of being surrounded if Russian forces continue to advance on the flanks.
Russia is achieving these gains on the eastern front at a high price in terms of casualties and material losses. According to Friday’s report from the Kiev General Staff, more than 2,000 men were killed or wounded along the line of contact in the last day, a record number since the start of the war.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, with the argument of protecting pro-Russian separatist minorities in the east and “denazifying” the neighboring country, which has been moving away from Moscow’s sphere of influence and moving closer to Ukraine. from Europe and the West. According to official Ukrainian estimates, Russia has already lost around 740,000 soldiers since the start of the conflict.
Despite heavy casualties, Russia continues to launch dozens of simultaneous daily attacks on multiple fronts in eastern Ukraine, with the most intense attacks again occurring in Kurakhovsk and Pokrovsk.
The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksander Sirsky, went to these two theaters of operations to assess the situation, stating that the troops are containing the enemy, and ordered the reinforcement of the highlighted units with ammunition, weapons and reserve personnel.
