Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj is speculating that the war will end soon next year. “When will the war end? When Russia wants the war to end. When America takes a stronger position. When the global South is on the side of Ukraine and on the side of ending the war,” Zelensky said in an interview with foreign representatives Media in Kiev at the third International Conference on Food Security “Grains from Ukraine”.
He is confident that all these measures will be implemented and decisions will be made sooner or later. “It won’t be an easy path, but I’m confident that we have every chance of making it next year,” Zelensky was quoted as saying by the Ukrinform agency.
“We are open to suggestions from leaders of African, Asian and Arab states,” Zelensky continued. “I also want to hear the proposals of the new President of the United States of America and I think we will hear them in January and we will have a plan to end this war.”
Russia is not thinking about the end of the Ukraine war
US President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly indicated during his election campaign that he wanted to scale back massive US military support for Kiev. Recently nothing has been heard of his earlier declaration that he could end the war within 24 hours.
Russia has been waging a war of aggression against its neighbor Ukraine for over two and a half years. Recently there was no indication from Moscow that it would give in to a quick end to the war. Instead, Vladimir Putin expressed his satisfaction with the use of a new medium-range missile against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. He described the rocket’s shelling of Dnipro as a successful test and emphasized that Moscow would continue testing the rocket, including in combat use.
The rocket, known as Oreshnik (German: nut bush), is unique in the world, praised Russia’s head of state and announced series production. “Nobody else in the world has a weapon like this,” Putin said at a meeting with senior military officials and representatives of the arms industry. The decision for series production has been made and it has practically already been organized.
