let Russia realistically assess the price it had to pay
Kyiv – Ukraine gives nothing back. Ukraine will inevitably reach the level when the fire advantage of the occupiers will be leveled.
“Ukraine does not give anything back. And when someone in Moscow reports something about the Lugansk region, let them remember their reports and promises before February 24, in the first days of this invasion, in the spring and now. Let them realistically assess what they have during this time and how much they have lost for it. Therefore, their current reports will also go to dust, like those of that time. Gradually we are moving forward – both in the Kharkiv region, and in the Kherson region, and on the sea: Snake is a good example. The day when the same thing can happen in Donbass,” the President of Ukraine said. Vladimir Zelensky July 3, when Russian sources received information about the capture of Lisichansk and Russian troops arrived at the administrative borders of the Lugansk region.
In a video message, he noted that today the main task of the state is to do everything so that Ukrainian citizens receive the majority of weapons.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine will reach the level when the fire advantage of the occupiers is leveled.
“And people, if the command of our army determines from certain points of the front where the external fire advantage matters, – in particular, this is Lisichanska, – this means only one thing: Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
The head of Ukraine focuses on the fact that the acquired HIMARS system and other weapons from partners play this important role.
“For everyone in the world – and, I am sure, for all intelligent people in Russia itself – it is clear that Ukraine will win. It’s only a matter of time. This is a question, unfortunately, of the losses that we bear, primarily people. This is a modern issue of weapons, which we must receive and be sure to judge,” the President of Ukraine said.
Russia’s losses in this war, according to his calculations, are estimated at more than 35 thousand soldiers killed.
During the use of July 4, Ukraine has an international emission conference in Lugano, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in four months of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 2,102 educational facilities, 799 medical statistics facilities.
“This is all a conscious tactic of Russia, not just shelling, but a stake precisely in the ideological confrontation. “Terrorist states hope that the discovered signs of the failure of the democratic system and the European choice of our people are being revealed, not just normal, but life in general,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted.
About Kherson and Donbass after Lisichansk
Weekly magazine website Economist July 4 comes from the words of a Ukrainian military intelligence officer that the forward units are currently within sniper range (about a kilometer) from Chernobaevka, a suburb of Kherson.
“The next week or two will be even more interesting,” he promises, according to The Economist.
The publication notes that it would in no way be recommended for this assignment – “it doesn’t look like launching a counter-offensive yet”: Ukraine remains focused on stopping Russia’s steady advance on production, its troops have retreated from Lysychansk in the Luhansk region .
Information in the press that the Ukrainian owners live a kilometer from the outskirts of Kherson is not taken into account. According to Ukrayinska Pravda on July 4, this was stated during a briefing by the head of the association of the coordinating press center of the operational command South Natalya Gumenyuk.
The Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty quoted the British Ministry of Defense as citing its intelligence that the attention of Russian troops would “almost certainly” shift to the capture of the Donetsk region after the capture of Lysichansk.
“Ukrainian forces withdrew from Lysichansk, probably retreating to reinforced defensive positions. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the cordon of Lisichansk and the exit were complete control over the city. Fighting in and around the city in the Luhansk region has intensified over the past week, with Russian troops advancing steadily,” the daily intelligence report says.
We will return
On Sunday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine found a message on its Facebook page that after the discovery of hostilities in Lysichansk, the Ukrainian Defense Forces use the services of their positions and lines.
“In the conditions of the multiple superiority of the Russian occupation detachments in artillery, operations, rocket ignition sources, food and personal needs, the continuation of the pursuit of the city would be taken to fatal consequences. In order to keep the Ukrainian defenders, a decision was made to leave, ”is preserved in life.
It is necessary to make sure that steel will and patriotism, material and technical resources, are not enough for success.
“Defenders of the Luhansk region and other regions of our country are heroically fulfilling their civic duties. We will return and we will definitely win!” – reports the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukraine will return the occupied territories
Political scientist Oleg Posternak believes that world observations of the way of investigation and restoration of the cathedral of Ukraine have been discredited in the 8 years that have passed since the first occupation of Ukrainian observations.
“And those analysts who believe that in the conditions of war there are grounds for expectation, they are right – war, more than ever, gives such an opportunity to do it more quickly and with the least time costs and, naturally, a chance to reconstruct Ukraine within the internationally recognized borders of the UN,” – He speaks Oleg Posternak Correspondent of the Russian service “Voice of America”.
He believes that Ukraine will definitely return the occupied territories of Donbass, and as a result of counter-offensive operations, the Kherson region.
“The key disease is Western weapons, but you need to understand that this will not be a simple run. Behind the Russians is Crimea, which has built a military, fuel, and logistics base for its army,” said Oleg Posternak.
World consequences for the return of the Crimea, occupied by the events of Donbass and the Kherson region, on his occasion, perhaps, but with the new power of Russia.
“This option, it is not the most appropriate, of course, is unlikely at the moment, but it cannot be discarded. We have the experience of the Crimean Platform and the Minsk process, and if this is a formula that is fixed during the Istanbul negotiations, a multi-level process, we still need to understand that world problems are just a pause to a new conflict with Russia,” – UNESCO Oleg Posternak.
Economy during the war
Yury Smelyansky, an expert on politics and economics from the Maidan of Foreign Information Foundation, believes that it is necessary to pretend to be an investigator to investigate military affairs, the economy worked for defense.
“The economy is one of the components of the war. Already at present, the situation is extremely difficult – there is a decline in the economy, a large number of jobs are found everywhere, and those that remain do not work normally, there is a transfer of labor resources. But since March of the expected year, there have been “swings” in the economy: either we received benefits and customs corridors, or we canceled all this, the instability of decisions does not speak in favor of the development of the economy,” Yuri Smelyansky Correspondent of the Russian service “Voice of America”.
According to his observations, the current processes in the economy show that they do not work as they should.
“I definitely believe that we will drive out the occupation and become the de-occupation of the entire sovereign territory of Ukraine. The likelihood that power will be correctly modeled during the investigation period may result in the economy working to win. Now we are becoming more and more dependent on this Western aid – and it is not enough to win, ”said Yuri Smelyansky.