The Russian troops begin to falter and Zelenski sets a date to end the war: "Russia is ready for defeat"

The Ukrainian forces are already endangering the flanks of the Russian troops around Bakhmut with a series of counterattacks, where they have managed to approach the city from the northwest and retake territory to the southwest.. At the other extreme, the head of the Wagner group has acknowledged that his troops have had to retreat.

Despite the fact that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is not official, its attacks seem to be increasingly depleting the Kremlin troops. “The flanks are crumbling, the front is collapsing and the attempts of the Defense Ministry to somehow smooth the situation are leading and will lead to a global tragedy for Russia,” warned the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, visibly upset.

According to Prigozhin, the troops have made a withdrawal of at least five kilometers, after which the Ukrainian troops have occupied “tactical heights” from which the city can be seen “at a glance” and has assured that the flanks “are crumbling” .

Zelenski pushes and is confident

If Wagner is showing weaknesses, at the other extreme is Ukraine, with Volodimir Zelensky at the helm. The Ukrainian president has taken advantage of Russia's apparent moment of weakness to stick out his chest with a forceful message. “Russia is ready for defeat,” he stated on his twitter profile.

Thus, he has also taken the opportunity to encourage his troops to continue putting pressure on the Russian invaders so that “their sense of defeat becomes their escape, their mistakes, losses.”

On the other hand, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksii Danilov, acknowledged this Friday that the Kiev authorities trust in the expulsion of Russian troops before the end of the year thanks to the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensives.. “Going into winter, we want to completely end the war.”

Thus, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council has stressed that the Ukrainian authorities are not concerned about the duration of the counter-offensives and that “they will fight for as long as it takes”, detailing that there is no set date for the Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Diplomacy keeps working

Despite the advances of the Ukrainian troops, Russia does not cringe. Faced with the announcement of the delivery of long-range missiles -by the United Kingdom- to Ukraine, the Kremlin has responded quickly.

“We view this decision as a new extremely hostile step by London, aimed at continuing to pump weapons into Ukraine and which will lead to a serious escalation,” Russian diplomacy said in a statement.

However, efforts to achieve a ceasefire. For his part, former Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorin, adviser to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will travel to Rome this Saturday to meet with the Italian authorities and Pope Francis, who revealed that a Vatican mission is underway to stop the war in Ukraine. .

In turn, the special representative of the Chinese Government for Eurasian Affairs, Li Hui, will visit Ukraine and Russia next week, among other countries, in order to promote a political solution to the 'crisis'