Wall Street Journal says Ukrainian president said in interview that ‘we are going to do it and we are ready’
- What we know on day 465 of the invasion
Ukraine’s plans for a counteroffensive against Russian occupation remain on track, its deputy defence minister told Reuters on Saturday, despite an “unprecedented” wave of missile and drone attacks across the country in recent weeks.
Ukraine will “start the counter-offensive, with the ambition to liberate our territories this year,” he added.
Nothing can stop our efforts, our desire, and our confidence that we’ll win this war.
They (Russia) have a lot of internal events that are of course linked to this war. We have a lot of people inside Russia who support Ukraine.
We want to see a clear… set of steps to be taken by both sides. Not just an indication that the door is open.
We are not going to negotiate any deal related to loss of our territory, including Crimea.
I propose that the Shangri-La dialogue find a mode of… voluntary declaration urging both Ukraine and Russia to immediately start negotiations for peace.
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