Oleksii Arestovich, a former non-staff adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, who was sacked this week, said he did not believe in a “guaranteed victory” for Ukraine.
“If everyone thinks that we are guaranteed to win the war, then it is very unlikely, since the 14th it has already ceased to be very similar to this. What do you think of the score? [Анджея] BagpipesPresident of Poland – and not only he said about the decisive months – that it is generally unknown whether Ukraine will survive, was it just said like that, or did he speak about it on the basis of some information?” Arestovich said in a video posted on his Telegram channel on Saturday.
At the same time, the former adviser added that he is now an unofficial person and can say what he thinks.
On January 18, Polish President Andrzej Duda, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said that a critical, decisive moment had come when it would be decided within a few weeks or months whether “Ukraine will survive or not.” Duda called the situation very difficult and linked it to the need to “send additional military support to Ukraine.”
Arestovich was dismissed on 17 January. A few days earlier, he said that part of the house in Dnepropetrovsk collapsed due to the fall of a missile shot down by the Ukrainian air defense system on it. After that, he was sharply criticized by the Ukrainian public, on January 16, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Alexey Goncharenko accused him of treason and announced the start of collecting signatures for his dismissal. The next day, Arestovich wrote a letter of resignation, and on the same day his request was granted.
