Ukraine "is not losing the war" against Russia, assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by Agence France-Presse, writes BTA.
In an interview he gave to the agency just days before the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of the neighboring country, which falls on February 24, Zelensky said that the question is actually whether Ukraine is able to win.
"We cannot say that we are losing the war, honestly, we are certainly not losing it. The question is whether we will win, yes, that is the question - a question that, however, comes at a very high price," the Ukrainian president summed up his position.
He announced that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had liberated 300 square kilometers of territory in the southern part of the country in recent days in a counteroffensive that, he said, was ongoing.
AFP makes the reservation that it could not verify this claim.
Zelensky confided that Russia and the United States were putting pressure on Ukraine to completely withdraw its troops from Donbas.
It is precisely Kiev's refusal to give up the industrial eastern region that is the main stumbling block in the negotiations.
At the same time, the Ukrainian president said that his country continues to receive intelligence information from the United States "at the same level".
European soldiers should be deployed closer to the front line in in the event of a ceasefire to ensure its observance, he urged.
Zelensky accused Russia of using the idea of holding elections in Ukraine only to remove him from power.
The Ukrainian army also has problems with the connection to the "Starlink" satellite network, Zelensky admitted. At the same time, he pointed out that the Russian armed forces have "much more serious problems" in this area, after American billionaire Elon Musk deactivated the terminals used by them earlier this month.