As noted by the Minister of Defense, key changes in the course of hostilities may involve long-range weapons such as ATACMS, aircraft, etc. However, he explained that the allies believe that Russia has not yet lost its subjectivity and will have to negotiate with it.
“A huge country with a nuclear reserve, a population of more than 130 million, a huge territory, interesting reserves of various minerals. Therefore, just to take it and stop thinking about it is, in principle, an unrealistic plan. Therefore, the allies dream a negotiating table, some kind of agreement. Not today “Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. They think that maybe the regime or the personalities in the Kremlin will change, and it will be necessary to sit down and negotiate with someone. And in order to keep this bridge to themselves, they are pursuing such an ambiguous policy to the end.” “, – said Reznikov.
At the same time, he draws attention to the fact that the Russians themselves reduce this “bridge” when they terrorize the civilian population and infrastructure of Ukraine with their bombing.
“Having stopped fighting with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they started fighting with the civilian population – and we immediately received, finally, a significant increase in assistance in our air defense. We have been dreaming of patriots for several years, but we didn’t believe that this was possible. And this has already happened. The decision has been taken, announced and now the preparation process is underway,” said the minister.
And he adds that Ukraine today has such a modern set of weapons that 30 years ago they could not even dream of.
“Even a year ago, they couldn’t dream of it. Let me remind you of the situation that I went to the United States on a business trip, just named, and just asked for ‘stingers.’ They refused me, they said it was impossible . And today it is not only possible, these are stingers, enlavs, javelins and eight types of 155 caliber artillery systems, this was also impossible in March. MLRS, HIMARS were also impossible, but we have and destroy the enemy. And there are many such examples,” Reznikov notes.
Reznikov assures: everything is possible: “patriots”, planes, tanks, ATACMS.
“It’s just that everything is going gradually, because the Russians themselves are raising the level of this escalation, which forces our partners to make a decision so that the response is reflected,” the defense minister emphasizes.
