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Ukraine is starting to receive much more modern weapons from Western partners, with which it will be able to fight more effectively against Russian invaders. True, it took a lot of effort.
From the first day of the war, Ukraine asked to provide partners with more modern weapons. However, most Western countries reacted rather sluggishly to this. One of the reasons was that they did not believe that the Ukrainians would be able to resist the Russian army for a long time.
“Our partners did not believe that Ukraine could win. Some believed that Ukraine would fall in 72 hours, which was what the Kremlin's General Staff dreamed about. But when the Ukrainians showed their not just courage, but their principled position not to surrender to their native land, they realized that we would fight to the last,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on the air of the Rada TV channel, Channel 24 reports.
According to him, the Ukrainian authorities have been convincing these countries since mid-March to provide modern weapons, not Soviet ones.
The Ukrainian army is powerful, strong, but it will be even stronger if she will fight with modern modern weapons. This includes artillery, long-range weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, and aircraft. – stressed Oleksiy Reznikov.
I had to increase pressure on other states with the participation of President Volodymyr Zelensky and the top leadership of the state.
“We started pushing at every level. And this kink happened, the philosophy changed. And we are starting to receive 155 caliber artillery from the United States, France and other partners. And today our gunners are already studying, this is no secret to anyone, in the appropriate places. This also applies to tankers and other specialists,” the Minister of Defense said.
Such a change in weapons will significantly change the picture of the war, the head of the Ministry of Defense is convinced.
“Now we can inflict defeat not on 20 kilometers, and 40 kilometers, for example,” said Alexei Reznikov.
But we should not stop there. And continue to put pressure, Aleksey Reznikov is convinced. After all, Western countries can get tired of the war, so they should be “constantly kept in good shape.”
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