Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with the Financial Times that a key stage in the Russian-Ukrainian war has moved from land and sea to the air. In his opinion, the “battle in the sky” will determine the outcome of the conflict.
Zelensky said that Ukraine was able to maintain the front and limit Russia to the sea, and thus the sky became the battlefield. “And in this confrontation, much larger territory is irrelevant,” Zelensky added. “We have moved into the airspace. And in the air we are already competitive.”
He noted that Ukraine has a critical weakness – air defense – but even despite this, it is capable of winning.
According to Zelensky, the psychological impact of large-scale drone attacks on Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as worsening economic problems, will ultimately weaken Vladimir Putin’s determination to continue the war.
“When not a hundred drones fly towards Moscow, but a thousand, he will understand,” Zelensky said. “When he begins to feel this personally, when he begins to see it with his own eyes… his advisors will persuade him to move somewhere beyond the Urals. The further Putin moves away from Moscow, the closer the end of the war will be.”
On July 6, the Russian army launched an attack on Kyiv and the Kyiv region. by Information Vladimir Zelensky, a total of 68 missiles and more than 350 drones were launched. This led to the death of 22 people and the injury of 90 others. In Kyiv suffer At least 15 residential buildings. In the city of Vyshnvoy, Kyiv region It was destroyed Dozens of buildings on five streets.
In turn, Ukraine struck the Omsk refinery, the largest oil refinery in Russia, on July 6. Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued the campaign of attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, which had already led to a fuel crisis in the Russian Federation. Currently, all ten major Russian refineries have been attacked.