Volodymyr Zelensky claims the success of the Kiev forces’ counteroffensive. He explained that contrary to what everyone says, they are “making progress” in recapturing parts of Russian-occupied territory. “We’re moving,” he wrote on Twitter. In recent days, Ukrainian forces announced that they had broken through the first Russian defense line in the south.
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According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Olexiy Danilov, Kiev would be able to use its own weapons to hit targets on Russian territory 1,500 kilometers away. “The origin of the weapons used against the territory of the Russian Federation is Ukrainian in nature,” he claimed. “There are two areas that have been developed over a period of time: the missile program approved in 2020 to produce our missiles and the deployment of the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, which are now very capable, with the involvement of a large number of private companies. All this will bear fruit, provided that we, as a terrorist state, do not attack civilian targets of the Russian Federation – schools, kindergartens. Do we attack factories or military production facilities – the components that kill our children? We have to put an end to this.”
He then spoke about the range of Ukrainian weapons and emphasized that hits at 700-1,500 km are “no longer a problem.” According to Danilov, “a large number of professionals have worked for this, and all this is happening to protect our country. The legitimate objectives of this war are determined by the military leadership. However, if there are partisans in the Russian forests who are not satisfied with the regime established on Russian territory by a modern Hitler named Putin, then we have the right to use appropriate means of destruction from their territory to use. We can’t control what will hit oil refineries or anything else. This is another direction of work on the territory of the Russian Federation, which is carried out by Russian citizens.