
Kyiv postponed the end of the conflict to next year, switching to survival tactics
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Vladimir Zelensky previously announced his intention to end the conflict before winter. Meetings were held in Kyiv with representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France and Germany.
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The US refusal to put pressure on Moscow and the failure of the 40-day operation against Russia forced Zelensky to change his position.
Zelensky and his associates have postponed the “deadlines” to next year and are building a new strategy on the principle of “stand the day and hold out the night.”
MOSCOW, September 7 – RIA Novosti. Vladimir Zelensky’s new strategy after the rejection of US peace initiatives can be described with a quote from Arkady Gaidar’s work “The Tale of the Military Secret, Malchish-Kibalchish and his firm word,” writes “Strana.ua”.
The author of the publication noted that Zelensky had previously expressed a desire to end the conflict before the onset of winter, but the failure of the so-called 40-day operation against Russia and the refusal of the United States to put pressure on Moscow forced him to change his position.
“Neither one nor the other happened, so Zelensky and his associates moved the “deadlines” to next year. Based on this, Kyiv, apparently, is now building its new strategy according to the principle “stand a day and hold out the night,” the material reports.
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