According to him, the speed of victory also depends on several factors.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi believes that Ukraine can win the war with the Russian Federation already this year, provided that Ukrainians maintain unity.

“The speed (of the end of the war. – ed.) depends on several things: strength inside Ukraine and strength from outside – the help of partners. It is impossible to allow the processes to slow down both externally and internally, because this will prolong the war,” he said during a meeting with students of Kyiv National University named after T. Shevchenko, the president’s website reports.

Zelensky rejected the statement that Ukraine’s victory was optional or that a partial victory was admissible.

The end of the war in Ukraine

Before the new year, the Financial Times published an analysis that emphasized that after ten months of full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is clear that the war will not end in the coming year.

At the same time, Ukraine’s Western partners are intensifying their rhetoric about increasing military aid to Kyiv, which would allow the war not to drag on and defeat the Russian occupiers this year.