Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed victory for Russia about Ukraine was "inescapable" as he hailed Russian soldiers' heroism in a New Year's online video information.
Moscow's defence main, who has been intensely criticised by professional-war voices in Russia for battlefield failures in the course of the ten-thirty day period marketing campaign, claimed the scenario on the frontlines remained "tricky" and lambasted Ukraine and the West for hoping to incorporate Russia.
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"We satisfy the New Yr in a tricky army-political scenario," Shoigu claimed. "At a time when there are all those who are hoping to erase our superb record and wonderful achievements, demolish monuments to the victors about fascism, set war criminals on a pedestal, terminate and desecrate every thing Russian."
With bloody preventing ongoing throughout the 1,000-km (600-mile) frontline, and Russia not acquiring secured any territorial gains considering that the initial months of the war, Shoigu informed Russian troopers: "Victory, like the New Yr, is inescapable."
Shoigu also praised the "immortal steps, selfless braveness and heroism" demonstrated by Russian troops preventing what he named "neo-Nazism and terrorism".
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Kyiv and the West have turned down Russia's assertion it is preventing "Nazis" in Ukraine as a baseless pretext for President Vladimir Putin's try to seize territory and topple Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a war of unprovoked aggression.
Moscow experienced envisioned swift victory in what it phone calls a "particular army procedure", but Ukraine's spirited resistance and billions of pounds of Western arms have assisted Kyiv change the tide of the war and mount a sequence of gorgeous counteroffensives. Ukraine has now reclaimed far more than 50 % of the territory seized by Russia in the course of the initial months of its invasion.
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