The secretary of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council vowed that Ukrainians will fight until they defeat Russia and warned that Friday’s attacks had increased hatred of Russians in the country.
“We will fight as long as necessary. Russia must die,” Oleksiy Danilov said on social media, quoted by Spanish agency Europa Press.
We greet this day with cold hatred and warm hearts.
The missile attacks of temporarily existing Russia have and will have exactly the opposite effect than the Kremlin scum expects, but they have never understood and will never understand Ukraine.1. More hate for…
– Oleksiy Danilov (@OleksiyDanilov) December 29, 2023
Last Friday, Russia carried out what is believed to be the largest attack since it invaded Ukraine almost two years ago, killing 18 and wounding 132, according to a preliminary report.
Ukrainian authorities said Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) at targets across Ukraine in an attack that lasted 18 hours.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have achieved “all objectives” planned during the intense attack launched at dawn.
“We greet this day with cold hatred and warm hearts,” said the Secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
According to Danilov, Russian missile attacks have and will have exactly the opposite effect as the Kremlin’s scum. [Presidência russa] to wait”.
“They have never understood Ukraine and will never understand it,” Danilov said of the effect of the Russian attacks on the Ukrainians’ determination to fight the Russians.
Danilov opined that everything is “the work of a rat who digs his own grave with his own hands from his ‘bunker'”, in a likely reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, the seat of the presidency in Moscow .
He said Friday’s attacks only managed to maximize “the rejection of everything Russian, culture, language and traditions” among Ukrainians.
The attacks also reinforced the idea that Ukraine should avoid any talks or commitments with a country that is nothing more than a “rotten piece of an empire,” he said.
Danilov further stated that Ukraine must strengthen the national resistance movement and continue the task of destroying once and for all any possibility of pro-Russian movements in the country.
“The answer will not be long in coming,” he warned, without elaborating.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 plunged Europe into what is considered the worst security crisis on the continent since World War II (1939-1945).
The number of civilian and military casualties is unknown, but several sources, including the UN, have warned it will be significant.
Ukraine launched a counter-offensive in the summer after receiving new weapons from Western allies, but has already acknowledged that the results were modest.
Source: DN
