Russia's main task

is

not to lose the war against Ukraine.

The Russian Federation is hysterically looking for any tools for this.

In particular, the Kremlin can offer a fictitious peace, or go to a protracted war, repeating 2014.

Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said this on the air of the "Freedom" TV channel.

"The Russians are already in an absolute panic. We need to understand what stage of the war we are at. And that's why these concepts appear here: "Let's talk about peace". Now Russia is selling not just a fictitious truce, and it is selling that peace possible, but peace when neither side has lost nor won. That is, Russia wants not to lose, it is hysterically looking for any tools that will allow it not to lose. It could be a bogus truce, it could be an attempt to draw us into a bogus negotiation process, it can be: "Let's give you a little bit of territory here, but fix some line of demarcation.

Let's make sure we don't lose," Podolyak says.

He adds that the main task of Russia is, if not by war, "then at least by such false proposals to record its non-losing in this war."

"Because they perfectly understand that when Ukraine reaches the end, which is our consensus, we will in any case now reach the end, then accordingly there will be physical and legal responsibility in full and none of them will hide behind anything. Therefore, they are looking for any opportunity to somehow fix at least something, or if it is not possible to fix some fictitious peace there, then at least get a protracted war. Repeat the year 14 and drag out this war for some time, only in other formats. Here what the Russian Federation is doing today," said Podolyak.

In his opinion, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, "clearly captures these moments" and conveys to his partners that Ukraine must win, Ukraine will receive all the necessary support, in particular with certain types of weapons, and Russia will have to be within the limits of special legal procedures at the tribunal. .

It should be noted that, according to Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation,

most Western leaders and officials are confident of Ukraine's victory

 in the war started by Russia.

That is why they are starting to think about what will happen after the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, called 2023 the year

of "offensive war".

That is why, as Danilov explained, the allies increased military aid to Ukraine.