"Not at any cost": Zelensky told under what conditions the Armed Forces will leave Bakhmut

In fact, like many others in the Donbass, destroyed by the Russians. It is important for us to protect it, but not at any cost but not for the sake of all that everyone is killed. We will beat until it will be Reasonably, the Russians then want to continue to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, to the borders of the Donbass and up to the Dnieper, if we can. We will release and in the meantime we will prepare the next counterattack, "Zelensky said.

The question of journalists is not afraid of the Ukrainian leader that the war will last for a long time, and the support of the Allies is exhausted, Zelensky replied that "the one who thinks that at some point we can leave us means that he did not understand the deep motivation of our battle. " "We are not three hundred Spartans and do not feel heroes, but we know that Europe and those who understand the danger of Russian threat are behind us," the President emphasized.

The President of Ukraine also noted that Ukraine is preparing for a short war and victory in it, despite the Kremlin's attempts to delay the war. "The faster it is [war], the less we will be casualties, the conflict was frozen in 2014, and it did not go to us. . Our soldiers are more motivated because they protect their families, their homes.

On the other hand, we are convinced that economic sanctions against Moscow are great help, they give us time and space for self -organization, "Zelensky summarized. We will remind, on February 19, the head of the Avdiiv Military-Civic Administration Vitaliy Barabash stated that the Russians are charging additional forces under Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Coal and Marinka and are preparing for the offensive on all sections of the Eastern Front at the end of February.

On the same day, February 19, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, the Presidential Representative to the Verkhovna Rada Fedir Venislavsky stated that from February 22 to February 24 in Ukraine was expected to be increased in the missile risk.