- The Russian president once again acknowledges that the invasion of Ukraine is going to take a long time and assumes that he will have to negotiate.

Zelensky, in the streets of Kherson. / Telegram

Zelensky again compares Russia to the Nazis and Putin accuses the West of "shamefully exploiting" Ukraine

"Air terror, missile terror, attacks by the Russian Federation, so reminiscent of the Nazi bombing of the UK." For Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is the 21st-century version of Hitler. And it is because since February it has decided to carry out an invasion of Ukraine, which is already at a total stalemate. Instead, for the Kremlin, what the West is doing is not helping Kyiv, but "shamefully exploiting" it. If the military front does not advance, the battle for the story does at a key moment given the circumstances.

For Zelensky, Russian crimes on Ukrainian territory and against Ukrainians have no precedents since World War II. Putin has, not surprisingly, another vision of his own invasion and considers that the blame does not lie only with Kyiv, but also with its Western allies. "For a period of years, the West has been exploiting its resources, promoting genocide and terror in Donbas, and turning the country into a colony while using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder, as a battering ram against Russia," he said. Kyrgyzstan.

Despite this approach, the Kremlin they gradually assume that "we will have to negotiate" with Ukraine, even though that diplomatic channel remains completely closed. Putin recognized this and says he is "prepared" for it. "One way or another, all participants in this process will have to agree," Putin said, saying on several occasions that this means Ukraine will have to accept the loss of both Crimea and the Kherson regions. , Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Lugansk, annexed by Moscow.

Kyiv has repeatedly expressed its rejection of these demands and has made the start of any negotiations conditional on the departure of Russian troops from the country and, on the other hand, Moscow continues without clarifying what the real objectives of the invasion are: to achieve their time is running out, Putin repeated. That is the only thing that is clear to him while he rules out time and again that there will be a second call-up for reservists.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is working against the clock to restore infrastructure damaged by Russia amid changing weather conditions with temperatures below and above zero. "Due to the damage caused by missile attacks on power plants and the high-voltage grid, the system has a significant deficit of electric power," Ukraine's power distribution grid operator said.

The company noted that "power consumption limits have already been exceeded in several regions" where emergency blackouts have been performed. Ukrainian operators have the task of restoring the infrastructure as soon as possible after each attack, but in some cases, the mission lasts for weeks.

Meanwhile, on the war front where the blows are intensifying is in Donbas. In fact, bloody fighting continues in the town of Bakhmut. The toughest clashes take place in that city and neighboring Avdiivka, according to the Ukrainian authorities. According to the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenko, the Russians "continued attacks on the central and northern parts of Donbas."

Kirilenko called on the locals to leave the area because "staying in Donbas is dangerous," he said. In other remarks, the Ukrainian official noted that "the entire front line" is under attack by the Russians. In this sense, he added that the enemy troops are trying to advance towards Liman, recovered by Ukrainian forces in October after months under Russian control. Also, the Ukrainian presidential adviser, Oleksiy Arestovich, spoke of the increase in pressure from the Russians at the front.

"As for the situation on the ground along the entire front line, we are in a phase of tactical-operational pressure from the Russian troops. That is, they intensified their efforts. Especially on the Donetsk front," he said in an interview. Arestovich pointed out that the Ukrainian Army does not carry out offensive operations now and focuses on defense in its positions. In turn, the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom indicated in its daily report that Russian forces are again using Iranian drones in Ukraine, which probably speaks of new deliveries of weapons to Moscow after the depletion of stocks.

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