““Games with messages about cuts and stuff – we don’t play that today. This is a serious, and for today, the only guarantee of security,” Volodymyr Zelenskyi said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
He noted that the Russian troops are concentrated in several areas, so they have a numerical advantage in some areas.
“And when the war ends, we must understand what the contingent of other countries is like. We support this idea and must understand how much it is. Second, we must understand what the army of Ukraine will be like, which today protects not only Ukraine. This is a very large army. Games with messages about contractions and such – we don’t play that today. Because it is such a large army that holds back the enemy today. This is also a serious, and currently the only guarantee of safety. Plus help, plus weapons from our partners. Therefore, how to preserve a large army is also part of these agreements,” Zelenskyy added.
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In July 2022 – five months after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation – at that time the Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov stated that more than a million people in uniform ensure the activities of the security and defense sector, in particular, up to 700,000 people have been mobilized to the Armed Forces.
As reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, as of December 2024, the Defense Forces are conducting active combat operations on a section of the front with a total length of more than 1,170 kilometers.