Russia will be forced to withdraw its troops from Ukraine soon, says Ukraine’s spy chief

February 23, 2023, 17:04

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Budanov is convinced that Ukraine is approaching the end of the war (Photo:REUTERS/Yevhen Titov)

Russia will be forced to withdraw its troops from the territory of Ukraine soon, the head of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde on Feb. 22.

According to Budanov, both pressure from the Ukrainian army, political processes in Russia, and pressure from diplomacy will contribute to this.

The Russians had the opportunity to calmly get out of the situation they created, he said. However, they did not want to stop and chose the path of escalation, which creates problems for them, Budanov said.

He said he believes that Ukraine is nearing the end of the war.

At the same time, he stressed that this would be possible only with the restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine to its 1991 internationally recognized borders.

“No other option is acceptable to us,” Budanov said.

“Any territorial concession could only lead to a new conflict later on.”

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NV today has a series of articles about the anniversary of Russia’s sick and evil invasion:

https://english.nv.ua/nation/no-peace-without-liberation-of-crimea-zelenskyy-says-news-50306482.html

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Comment from Chris Coles:

“In sharp contrast to Russia, when China launched a full scale land invasion of Vietnam in 1979 with 500,000 troops, and the Vietnamese put up a ferocious resistance, stopping the Chinese invaders at about the 50km line, killing more than 50,000 Chinese soldiers, the China leaders quickly realized their invasion was headed towards a disaster and withdrew the entire Chinese army about one month after the invasion started, rather than risking getting bogged down in a losing war. Thereby quickly and decisively correcting their initial mistake of launching an invasion of Vietnam.”