Ukrainian defense minister on possible war scenarios

Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov named three possible scenarios for the end of the war with russia, including the collapse of the russian federation, Ukraine's victory on the battlefield, and another alleged "gesture of goodwill by the russian federation."

Reznikov stated this at the Forbes Ukraine conference Building Together, UP writes.

"The first scenario will be approximately the same as the "goodwill" of the russians, which was announced when they fled from the Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, Sumy region, and Snake Island.

Accordingly, I think it will be broken into several chains. First, we will come to the positions before February 24 this year. Next, there might be conversations regarding the status of the previously occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea, but at the table with our powerful partners," the message reads.

According to Reznikov, there will definitely be no Minsk-3 and no capitulation agreements: "No one will negotiate at gunpoint."

"Second option is that we will gradually grind down russia's Armed Forces because this is actually a war of resource for a resource. They have more people, territory, tanks, planes, etc., but everything is outdated, everything is old, and today they use the principle of choppers," he emphasized.

According to the minister, the second victory scenario is not that fast: "By the end of the year, perhaps beginning of the new year."

"The third scenario is more dramatic for the russian federation. It is the collapse of russia, a parade of sovereignties into several different subjects: Tatarstan, Bashkirstan, in the East, etc. We will definitely see it in our lifetime, but it is a rather long story," the message says.

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