“The coming months will be difficult” for Ukraine, and that “it should not be underestimated by the Russian military capacity. ”
“The withdrawal of the Russian forces from Jiusson reflects the tremendous courage of the Ukrainian armed forces, but we must not make the mistake of disregard in Russia,” said Stoltenberg in The Hague, after meeting with the foreign ministers and defense of the Netherlands.
He added: “The Russian armed forces retain great capabilities and a large number of soldiers, and Russia has expressed its willingness to bear great losses,” according to Agence France -Presse.
The Russian army, which has difficulty on the ground, carried out intense strikes with missiles and “suicide” drones in recent weeks, on Ukrainian civil facilities, including energy networks.
“The next months will be difficult.
Putin’s goal is to leave Ukraine cold and dark this winter,” Stoltenberg said.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Foludmir Zellinski visited Jiusson, the main city in the south of the country, which was brought from the Russians last week.
Pictures published by the director of the presidential office, Andrei Yermak, showed the Ukrainian president repeating the national anthem and putting his hand over his chest, while the blue and yellow Ukraine flag was raised near the main administration building in the center of Jacon.
Zelinski announced, on Sunday evening, that “the Russian forces were committed in the part that it occupied from Jiuson the same atrocities that they committed in other Ukrainian areas occupied by it.
” Stoltenberg said that the armed forces “also showed a severe brutality. ”
For his part, the Kremlin stressed, on Monday, that Jacon “is still part of Russia. ”
Stoltenberg met with Dutch Foreign Minister Foubke Hoxre and Defense Minister Kissa Olongreen, to discuss the Netherlands’ contribution to NATO and in the war in Ukraine.
“Winter arrives (. . . ) and we have to stay on the same path.
If Russia stops fighting tomorrow, the war will end, but if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no so -called Ukraine. “.
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