It is not enough just to liberate occupied territories – Zaluzhnyi about Ukraine's victory

Valerii Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that only the liberation of the entire occupied territory of Ukraine was not enough for the victory of Ukraine.

Source: Zaluzhnyi in an interview with Dmytro Komarov Rik. Za Kadrom (A Year. Behind the scenes)

Quote: "Our victory is the complete liberation of the entire occupied territory of Ukraine. The entire territory must be liberated. But this is not enough.

Ukraine, as a state, must do everything to ensure that everything that happened and began on 24 February 2022, never happens again.

It should rebuild such a military institution that will never, well, at least as long as the Ukrainians want to live in peace and tranquillity, will never give the Russians the opportunity to repeat everything.

Victory for us is liberated territory and a powerful, ultra-modern and apparently very large armed forces, capable of combat, which will not allow the Russian Federation to repeat what happened and what is happening now.

This is a victory. And world history knows that states that live and always show by their behaviour that they are ‘better left alone’.

The state of Ukraine should become exactly like that."

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