According to the head of the Ministry of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov, the Russian army cannot defeat the Ukrainian army on the battlefield, so it fights against the civilian population with missiles.

Reznikov said this on December 6 on the telethon.

"Their (occupiers - ed.) logic is very simple, they cannot defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces and, in general, our Defense Forces on the battlefield, so they started a war with the civilian population. Their dream is to plunge us and you into darkness and cold, so that the people of Ukraine said: "everything, so far, we want to surrender and force the authorities to negotiate". After that, there will be Kremlin lawyers in the world who will happily rub their hands and say "let's sit down at the negotiating table" and give some "guarantees", etc., says Reznikov.

According to him, the Russians are trying to implement "Minsk-3", but they do not understand that their terror of the civilian population only strengthens support for Ukraine on its way to victory.

"They even cynically call these strikes "humanitarian shelling" and "humanitarian missiles". This is a tactic of the new military leadership, which is appointed to be responsible for this "special operation", but they do not understand one thing - such attacks only strengthen the resistance and stability of the Ukrainian nation. Not only that , this strengthens the desire of our partners to support us," the Minister of Defense emphasizes. 

Reznikov recalls how, after one of the massive missile attacks on Ukraine, the rhetoric of some countries changed at the Ramstein meeting.

It was after this that Western countries began to talk about strengthening Ukrainian air defense.

In particular, Spain then agreed to provide its Hawk air defense systems.

"That's why these idiots (Russian occupiers - ed.) are simply doing things that will not lead them to victory in any case. They will lead you and me to our victory," Reznikov emphasized.

It will be recalled that Oleksiy Reznikov, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, had a telephone conversation with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, after another massive Russian missile attack on Ukrainian civil infrastructure.

With his American colleague, he discussed further steps that the countries will take to strengthen Ukrainian air defense. 

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