The country is also making its defense industry one of the most advanced in the world with the aim of restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity, he pledged. Zelenskyy had repeatedly said that he wanted to liberate the areas annexed by Russia, including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow had annexed in 2014.
More than 30 billion US dollars (around 28.2 billion euros) should be spent on the country’s defense in the coming year, Zelenskyj told the Kiev TV station Freedom according to. The president also announced the goal of releasing all Ukrainians from Russian captivity for the coming year. Since the start of the Russian war of aggression in February, 1,456 people have already returned home.
Russia expects new weapons
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the supply routes for weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian army from abroad will soon be interrupted. “We are observing that Ukraine is getting more and better Western weapons,” Lavrov said during an interview on Russian television on Wednesday. Therefore, there are demands among military experts to interrupt these delivery routes. “Railway lines, bridges and tunnels” are being considered, Lavrov explained. “I assume they’re making professional decisions regarding how to make those deliveries more difficult or, ideally, stop them altogether.”
Attacks once morest the Ukrainian infrastructure are already being worked on in part. If the energy grid is interrupted, the delivery of new weapons will already be made more difficult. “And I am convinced that there are other plans that are being used in this regard.”
