Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky tried to stay upbeat when discussing the “new phase of the conflict against Russia in an interview with the AP, claiming he had mixed emotions about the success of the counteroffensive so far.
“We are fighting with the second (best) army in the world, I am satisfied,” he said. “We are losing people, I’m not satisfied. We didn’t get all the weapons we wanted, I can’t be satisfied, but I also can’t complain too much.”
He reiterated fears that global attention shifting to Israel’s war with Hamas was another battlefront Ukraine had to fight, insisting “we must not allow people to forget about the war here.”
