Zelensky hopes the war in Ukraine will end not by war but by diplomacy in 2025
Zelensky claimed that Ukraine’s military has become one of the most powerful in the world, but the country’s military has been bolstered by an aid package worth millions of euros from Western allies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced this Hopefully the war with Russia will end in 2025 through diplomatic meansZelensky said this in a radio interview on Friday Ukraine must do everything possible to end the war next year Through negotiations rather than military force.
“We’re at war, I don’t want to compare, but We are at war with a state that does not value its peopleWhoever has a lot of equipment, who doesn’t care how many people die, that’s what is happening,” Zelensky said.
“And for our part, We must make every effort through diplomatic means to ensure that this war ends next year.To end it. And I think that’s very important.” In the same interview, Zelensky said that the Ukrainian military has become one of the most powerful in the world.
In almost three years of war, Kiev has received about 120 billion euros of military aidMostly from Western allies. 41% of that aid comes from the United States, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Those are the five major donor countries.
However, Zelensky claimed that Ukraine had achieved Considerable progress was made in the production of its own weapons.Which includes missiles, naval drones and electronic warfare systems.
,We are the strongest technologically in EuropeDefinitely. because we have Modern practices based on modern long war“That is why we have drones, electronic warfare systems, long-range unmanned aircraft and counter-insurgency,” he said.
On Saturday, Zelensky said he was confident The war will end quickly once Donald Trump enters the White House in JanuaryZelensky said he had a constructive exchange when he spoke by phone with the president-elect Trump’s election victory earlier this month. Trump has long been critical of US military aid to Ukraine and questions have arisen whether such support from Washington would continue under his presidency.
America is Ukraine’s largest arms supplier And, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, by the end of June Washington had given in or committed to Sending military packages worth more than $55 billion (52,000 million euros), During the election campaign, Trump repeatedly said he would end the war in Ukraine “in a day”, without explaining how he planned to do so.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that One of the country’s drone units destroyed a Russian BUK-M1 anti-aircraft missile system Price: $10 million (9.4 million euros),
A video shared on Telegram by Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko shows how system attacked which he described as “one of the hottest areas at the front”, without specifying where the video was recorded.
The Soviet-era BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile system has been used by both the Ukrainians and Russians in combat And, last year, Ukraine announced it had modified the system so it could fire American missiles.
Japan is concerned about relations between North Korea and Russia
Japan’s foreign minister was in Kiev on Saturday to discuss North Korea’s increasingly close military alliance with Russia, including the deployment of thousands of troops to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Takeshi Iwaya met with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrey Sibiha to confirm this Japan’s “firm support” to Ukraine against Russian aggression. and to discuss new sanctions against Moscow, the Japanese Foreign Ministry reported.
According to assessments by American, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence services, Up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia Within the framework of an important defense treaty between the two countries. On Saturday, G7 leaders issued a statement reaffirming their support for Ukraine as the war marked its thousandth day.
,We stand in solidarity by contributing to their fight For sovereignty, independence, independence, territorial integrity and its reconstruction. “We also recognize the impact of Russian aggression on vulnerable people around the world,” part of the joint statement reads.
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