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Zelensky uses Game of Thrones quote to assess situation in Ukraine
Local authorities and businesses have repeatedly warned that the coming winter will be the hardest in Ukraine's history. Zelensky warned Ukrainians that "winter is coming."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who arrived in Brussels to attend a meeting of the European Council, warned Ukrainians about the upcoming "dangerous" winter and once again called for the delivery of more air defense systems to Ukraine. A video of Zelensky's comments about journalists was published on the Strana.ua website.
"Winter is coming. When winter comes, there is always danger, so you need to do your homework and do a lot of work. But I can't give more details now because we urgently need air defense. That's why I'm here," the president said.
At the same time, I believed that the "victory plan" presented the day before was a springboard for holding a second "peace summit." According to Zelensky, if his plans go according to plan, the conflict will end by 2025 at the latest.
Prime Minister Zelensky responded to the journalist's comments about criticism of the plan, noting that Ukraine's plan "is not intended to be criticized or condemned." "From the very beginning of the war, I have heard a lot of criticism about how and when the war will end. But now we are in Brussels, and we have partners and friends around us. At the beginning of the war, this was not the case. Then, there were only Russian troops around us. <…> People share their ideas, analysis, etc. "I am very grateful to them," the Ukrainian president said. According to him, the main advantage of this plan is that it depends only on the will of Kyiv's partners, and not on the will of Russia.
Zelensky's "Victory Plan" contains five points, including inviting Ukraine to NATO until the end of the conflict, strengthening the country's defense capability, and deploying a "comprehensive package of non-nuclear strategic deterrence." According to the president, Kyiv has given its partners secret appendices to the plan and will not make them public. Russian authorities have called the "Victory Plan" an American "false plan" to continue the conflict. "There have been talks about some kind of temporary peace plan for several weeks now... Perhaps this is the same American plan to fight us to the last Ukraine, which Zelensky has now disguised and called "peace." This was reported by the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
The Managing Director of Ukraine's largest oil and gas producing company, Ukrnafta, Serhiy Koretsky, previously said that the coming winter would be the most difficult in modern Ukrainian history due to damage to energy infrastructure.
According to Zelensky, since the beginning of the conflict, Ukraine has lost half of its energy capacity. The peak of consumption last winter was 18 GW, and Kyiv lost 9 GW. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, the head of state said that as a result, all thermal and hydroelectric power plants in the country were destroyed, which made future problems inevitable. winter.
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly reported mass attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities. The military emphasizes that strikes are carried out only on military and energy facilities and the corresponding infrastructure of Ukraine.