Ukraine reside ticker: Von der Leyen calls on Russia to display peace | EUROtoday

The Russian battle of aggression towards Ukraine has now lasted simply so long as the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War towards Hitler’s Germany. In addition to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the opposition Russian web site “Meduza” referred to those statistics. Soviet dictator Stalin declared the Great Patriotic War after the German assault in 1941.

The web site calculated that it took the Soviet Army 1,418 days to advance to Berlin after the primary setbacks towards the Wehrmacht and to pressure the give up of Germany along with the Allies. In distinction, after 1,418 days of battle in Ukraine, the Russian military has been “stuck in the same villages and towns of Donbass for years.” Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine nearly 4 years in the past and anticipated to seize the capital Kiev inside days. The statistics weren’t talked about within the Russian state media.

Moscow needed to repeat the success of that point, mentioned Zelenskyj in his night video speech. “They repeated the mistreatment of people, repeated fascism, repeated almost everything that was the worst in the 20th century,” he burdened. “Yet the Russians are trying to conquer the same Donbass as they did almost four years ago, they want to lie again that they took Kupiansk.”

Zelensky: Russian losses at 1,000 deaths per day

“That says a lot about the system that (Kremlin chief Vladimir) Putin has built and just about him personally,” Zelensky mentioned. According to him, Russian losses are presently at the least 1,000 useless per day. “And so Russia is actually paying for the war not to end, which is crazy.” And this “Russian madness” can solely be stopped with mixed forces.

The comparability of the 2 wars is just not totally right, “Meduza” added. A direct comparability of many indicators reveals that the present battle solely has an existential character for Ukraine. Kyiv manages to proceed the battle with Western assist. The Kremlin, then again, is unable or unwilling to have interaction in an existential battle and is limiting itself to solely barely growing its efforts.