Presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak tells AFP progress is “slower than we want.” Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Ukraine expects its fight to regain land lost to the Russian invasion to be long and grinding, a senior presidential aide in Kyiv told AFP on Wednesday.
“Undoubtedly, this operation will be quite difficult, long and will take quite a lot of time,” he said. “Of course, we need additional armoured vehicles – two to three hundred tanks first of all,” Mr Podolyak told AFP journalists. But he also reported some success, saying the number of “offensive operations” led by the Ukrainian army was “progressively rising” and that not all brigades readied for the counteroffensive have been sent to battle.
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