[이데일리 방성훈 기자] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stressed that this week will be a very important time in the war, amid warnings that Russia will soon launch a full-scale attack on eastern Ukraine.
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According to CNN, President Zelensky said in a video speech on Sunday, the 10th local time, that “next week will be more important than any other week in the war with Russia.” will carry out the operation. “More missiles, more bombs,” he said.
However, he said, “The tension and responsibility increases, but the Ukrainian Defense Forces are ready to respond to the attack. The Russian army will be more afraid than us. I will be afraid of losing.”
Ukrainian and western intelligence officials believe that the Russian military will soon launch a major attack in the eastern region after the reorganization is complete. Kirillo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Agency, told CNN on the 8th that “Russian forces that have been reorganized are planning to advance towards Kharkiv.”
In fact, in the satellite image taken by the US private satellite company Barracks Technology on the 8th, a 13km-long procession of Russian military vehicles moving south toward Kharkiv from the Ukrainian town of Veliki Buruk, which borders Russia, was captured.
The Russian military has also been intensifying its offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine since last week, attempting to widen the scope of its occupation. On the same day, the Russian military launched a missile attack on an industrial facility in Pavlohrad and an airport in Dnipro, a supply point in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast near Donbas.
On the 8th, a missile was fired at a train station in Kramatorsk, Donesk Oblast, where about 4,000 civilians including refugees gathered. The commander was appointed as the commander-in-chief.
In response, President Zelensky said in an interview with CBS that day, “They are no longer interested in negotiations,” and pointed out that a diplomatic solution is no longer meaningful. “Russia’s goal of this war is not limited to Ukraine,” he said. The whole of Europe is within range,” he said, urging the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to take a stronger response.
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Concerns about civilian casualties are also increasing. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan appeared on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on the same day, saying, “General Lee (Dvornikov) has a history of killing civilians in other regions, including Syria.” warned that it could.
In this regard, President Zelensky said in a speech on the same day that the Russian military was trying to evade responsibility for war crimes. “Ukraine will prevent that from happening. The day will come when they will have to admit everything. Accept the truth,” he said forcefully.
