“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has set the task of ousting Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region by January 20, when the inauguration of the newly elected US president, Donald Trump, is to take place.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Zelenskyi during the 3rd Grain from Ukraine International Conference on Saturday, reports “Interfax-Ukraine”
Direct speech: “For Putin, the most important thing is to oust us from the Kursk region. All these stories, all these indicators, strikes with new missiles, all this is not for nothing. He set this task. I am sure that he wants to oust us by January 20. For him, it is very it’s important to show that he’s in control. He’s not in control.”
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Details: According to the president, “the Kursk operation is not a toy”, and it was able to show that Putin is not capable of fully defending the Russian Federation. At the same time, Zelensky said that the most difficult situation at the front is in Donetsk region, in the east of Ukraine.
“He (Putin – ed.) wants to show that he has completed, as he said, the task – he occupies the entire Donbas, and he needs to push us out of the Kursk region. These are the two tasks he has,” Zelenskyy said.
He added that there have never been such huge losses in Russia as in the Kursk direction.
“We have one of the interceptions in the Kursk direction. The fact that he most likely conveys personal requests to his command, that the fate of the SVO rests on the Kursk operation,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Russia only knows how to intimidate, and it is not strong as it seems.
What preceded: The Telegraph previously reported that Putin has deployed 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops in an attempt to retake Ukraine’s Kursk region before Donald Trump takes office as US president in January.