““We are defending today. If tomorrow, for example, half of the army just go home, then it was necessary to give up on the first day ””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“A long war is tired of any person. The mobilization continues, it mobilizes a large number of people. They have rotations or vacations, but of course it is not enough, ”Zelensky said in an interview with Italian journalist Chechilily Sali for Il Foglio.
He acknowledged that a request for how to return home and not return to the front again is “definitely”.
“That is, the martial law involves the mobilization of people and all the resources that are in the country. Absolutely everyone. And, unfortunately, there is a challenge of this war, and why it needs to be accelerated as much as possible to finish it, to force Russia to end this war. We are defending today. If tomorrow, for example, half of the army just go home, then it was necessary to give up on the first day. Yes it is. Because if half of people go home tomorrow, Putin will kill us all, ”the President said.
According to him, who will not be able to escape abroad, “who will disagree – they will kill us.”
“All towns, small villages – when they went – look where someone shows the resistance – they destroyed everything, people were killed. And those who went were left with nothing, ”he added.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is asked for three months for the development of a law on demobilization, or more precisely, for the establishment of clear terms of service. Their absence, according to a number of servicemen and their families, is perhaps the main cause of HSF and desertion in the Armed Forces.
In early January, the Verkhovna Rada approved a law that continues until March 1 the possibility of registration of servicemen who committed the SRS and who voluntarily arrived in military units.
The legislation of Ukraine provides for the mobilization of conscripts aged 25 to 60 years.
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin calls a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Initially, its purpose was determined by “demilitarization and denacification”, later – “protection of Donbass”. And in September and early October, Russia attempted to annex partially occupied Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Ukraine and the West stated that these actions were illegal. On October 12, the UN General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the annexation of the Russian Federation of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The Russian authorities declare that the army does not attack civilian objects. At the same time, Russian aircraft, missile troops, fleet and artillery are fired daily by Ukrainian cities. Residential buildings and objects of civil infrastructure throughout Ukraine are being destroyed.
At the end of October, Ukraine estimated Russia’s losses in the war of over 70,000 dead military. In September, Russia stated that its losses are smaller than 6 thousand dead. In June, President Zelensky appreciated the ratio of losses of Ukraine and Russia as one to five.
Without overcoming the resistance of the Armed Forces, the surviving Russian units in early April left the territory of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. And in September, the army of Ukraine, as a result of the lightning counter -offensive, released almost all of the occupied part of Kharkiv region.
On November 11, the Ukrainian defense forces displaced Russian forces from Kherson.
After the liberation of the Kyiv region from Russian troops in the cities of Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel and villages of the region revealed the facts of massacres, torture and rape of civilians, including children.
The Ukrainian authorities have stated that Russia is doing genocide. The West countries are involved in confirming the facts of massacres and investigations. The Russian Federation rejects accusations of committing war crimes.
Later, the facts of torture and killings of Ukrainian citizens began to open in almost all settlements that were released from the Russian occupation. In particular, in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson.
Since September 2022, fierce battles of the Russian-Ukrainian war are coming in the east and southern Ukraine.
On June 6, 2023, the Dam of the Kakhovka Reservoir was completely destroyed (it was controlled by the Russian army since the beginning of March 2022, and in October it was replaced by the occupiers), which led to flooding of large territory, human casualties, the destruction of agricultural land, the pollution of the Dnieper and the Black Sea. Ukraine called it an ecocid.
In total, during the full -haired war of February 24, 2022 to the end of June 2024, the UN verified data on at least 33,878 victims of civilians, including 11 284 dead.
The real amount of losses, experts say, is much higher. Only during the blockade and bombing of Mariupol, according to the Ukrainian authorities, could more than 20 thousand people die.