Ukraine fighting 'four times longer than the enemy expected,' says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy Friday said Ukrainians have been fighting "four times longer than the enemy expected," in a statement posted online.
"Ukrainians are proud people who defend their land and won't give up the tiniest part of this land to the occupier, nor the tiniest part of our freedom," Zelenskyy said.
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Zelenskyy said it is impossible to say how many days Ukraine will need to "liberate" its land, "but it's possible and necessary to stress that this day will come and we will win, because we've already achieved a strategic breakthrough and we will continue down this path to victory."
He also spoke about Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure saying, "In many regions of Ukraine there's no power or water supply, no heating. It's a real humanitarian catastrophe. "
Zelenskyy said said that if Russian attacks continue, then sanctions placed on Russia "aren't enough."
"They continue to torture Mariupol and Kharkiv, fire missiles on Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk. If all this is still going on it means that sanctions already imposed on Russia are not enough and new tougher measures are urgently needed. Russia has to pay for this terrible war, pay every single day," Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian government set up 12 humanitarian corridors, according to Zelenskyy.
"If the other side will break the agreements again, our response will be so strong, that humanitarian corridors will be needed for occupiers themselves," he said.