For weeks, Ukrainian officials have been caught between trying to assure their citizens that a counterattack is indeed coming, and trying to tamp down speculation that could help Russia prepare its defences
They say nothing. One by one, seven Ukrainian soldiers look directly into the camera and put a finger to their lips, even as gunfire is audible in the background.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 500 Ukrainian children had been killed since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022 and that “many of them could have become famous scholars, artists, sports champions, contributing to Ukraine’s history.” The figure, he said in a Telegram post, was one of the reasons Ukraine “must hold out and win this war!”
Most, if not all, of the 150 Leopard and Challenger main battle tanks promised by Ukraine’s Western allies are now here and ready for use. Thousands of Ukrainian troops who travelled to Germany, Britain and Eastern Europe for training with NATO soldiers have returned. The ground in eastern and southern Ukraine – for months so muddy that heavy equipment could barely move – has been hardened by weeks of hot, dry weather.
Despite the rampant speculation, the only signs so far of a significant new phase in the war have come in the form of the escalated Russian air attacks and the repeated cross-border raids by Russian citizens fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war. “We will exchange them for the opportunity to hold few minutes’ conversation about the destiny of Russia, about that unnecessary bloody war which has been going on for a year and a half and which now continues on the territory of our Motherland and yours,” Mr. Kapustin says in the video.
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