Today, Ukraine is defended by 700,000 military, – Zelensky/Office of the President
Vladimir Zelensky spoke about the personnel of the Ukrainian army. As of today, the state protects 700 thousand soldiers.
He spoke about this in an interview with Ukrainian journalists during the national telethon, Channel 24 reports. Personnel and equipment are located throughout the country.
An army of 250 thousand people is not enough
According to him, the current situation at the front is this is the result of the work of 700 thousand Ukrainian soldiers.
Today it is 700 thousand – here you see the result of the work of 700 thousand warring people. 700 thousand. This is at the time of the war,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
In his opinion, an army of 250-260 thousand people is not enough for Ukraine . Moreover, there were 120,000 combat units out of this number.
That is why Zelensky, even before the full-scale invasion, signed a decree to increase the Armed Forces of Ukraine by 100,000 people for the next year. However, the president understands that even this number of additional personnel could not have prevented a Russian attack.
Zelensky admits that There are a lot of Russians now: they used absolutely everything, even taking into account the “quiet mobilization”. Now with such a volume of troops, the president believes, no country in Europe could cope.
“From the point of view of the forces that Russia used, using absolutely everything, even using reserves, using such” quiet mobilization “(” quiet “, because mobilization is when there is war, and they could not declare war on us, they called it ” special operation “). They overturned the troops, there was an increase both in the Crimea and in Belarus – in different directions. This is really a large volume. I think that today no European country has coped with such a volume would,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted.
What will be a victory for Ukraine in this war
The President believes that this is access to the line of demarcation, which was before 24 February. But, of course, Ukraine is not going to give up the occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea. .
Access to these borders will demonstrate that “we were not captured, and we defended our land.” Next, you should immediately proceed to the second stage on the occupied territories. Zelensky hopes that Putin will have enough understanding to resolve all issues through negotiations.
Everything will return anyway. We broke the back of one of the strongest armies in the world. We have already done it, and also psychologically. They will not get back on their feet in the next few years,” Zelensky said.
