The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, has indicated that Kiev needs more time to launch an expected counteroffensive against Russia and has stressed that it still needs the promised military aid to arrive from its allies in the face of these operations..

“We can go ahead (with what we have) and be successful, but we would lose a lot of people.. I think that this is unacceptable,” he said during an interview from the Ukrainian capital to public broadcasters of the Eurovision News group..

“We have to wait. We still need a little more time,” he said, before adding that the combat brigades, some of which have been trained by NATO member countries, are “ready”, although the Army still needs “some things”. , including armored vehicles. Ukrainian authorities have been anticipating for some time that the counter-offensive could take place soon, although a date has never been specified.. Russian troops have fortified their defenses along the entire front to try to stop the possible attack.

In this sense, Zelensky has expressed his confidence that the Ukrainian Army could make progress and has warned of the possibility of “a frozen conflict”, something that Russia “counts on”, according to the British television channel BBC..

It will not recognize the annexed territories

The Ukrainian president has also ruled out the possibility of recognizing Russian authority in the annexed territories in the event that peace talks begin, while acknowledging that “everyone will have an idea” about their content..

“They cannot pressure Ukraine to hand over territories. Why should any country in the world give its territory to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin?” he has asked, although at the moment there are no expectations that Kiev and Moscow will be able to sit at the negotiating table..

On the other hand, Zelensky has denied that Kiev could lose Washington's support if US President Joe Biden fails to be re-elected in 2024 and has expressed his expectation of “having won (the war) by then”..

Zelensky has also outlined that the sanctions against Russia are affecting the Russian defense industry and has reiterated his rejection of Russia's accusations of an assassination attempt on Putin using drones against the Kremlin, which he has described as a possible false flag operation.. “They constantly look for something that sounds like justification and say: 'You do this to us, so we do this,'” he argued.. “didn't work. Even for the internal audience, it didn't work. Its own propagandists do not believe it, because it seemed very, very artificial”, has settled.