“I recommend that all critics shut up, come to Ukraine and try to free up a square centimeter themselves,” Kuleba said.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
Portal Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday strongly condemned critics of Kiev’s tactics in its counteroffensive against the war, saying they were contemptuous of Ukrainian soldiers and should “shut up.”
“Criticizing the slow pace of the counteroffensive is like … spitting in the face of the Ukrainian soldier who sacrifices his life every day by advancing and liberating one kilometer of Ukrainian soil after another,” Kuleba told reporters at a meeting of the US Minister. European Union External Relations in Toledo, Spain.
The New York Times last week quoted U.S. and other Western officials as saying the counteroffensive had made limited progress because Ukraine had stationed too many troops in the wrong places.
“I recommend that all critics shut up, come to Ukraine and try to free up a square centimeter themselves,” said Kuleba, standing next to Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares.
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