Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu himself seems unsure whether his country can achieve victory in the war of invasion of Ukraine. When a TV reporter asks him after a long silence: “Shall we win?”, he shrugs his shoulders and raises his arms to the side almost theatrically. Only after this unconfident gesture does he finally answer: “We have no other choice.”
Excerpts from an interview with Shoigu are currently circulating on social media. To many observers, he no longer seems as confident of victory in the interview as he did at the start of the war. The minister said on Wednesday that his forces would maintain an “active defence” in the face of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. Unusually openly, he admitted that the situation at the front was difficult in some places.
Main task: Eliminate enemy weapons
“The armed forces provide active defense on the necessary, essential fronts. In some places it is harder, in others it is easier,” Shoigu explains. “But I can say that the boys and the commander act confidently and reliably and defend what we have to defend at the moment – obviously the places where the Ukrainian forces want to break through.” The main task of the Russian armed forces is to eliminate enemy weapons, Shoigu said.
Ukraine has recently achieved some successes in the fight against the invaders. This week, two warships were hit by missiles in the port of Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula. 24 people were injured in the serious attack. Another violent explosion took place in Crimea on Thursday evening; a huge fireball was seen in the sky, as evidenced by images on social media.
Source: Krone
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