Regulatory, financial, and personnel changes will be implemented in Ukraine to scale up weapons production and increase the country’s defense self-sufficiency, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Facebook, APA reports citing Ukrinform.
The President held a meeting with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and Chief of the General Staff Andriy Hnatov, during which they discussed the situation in key defense areas: Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, and the Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Sumy regions.
“We see the enemy’s intentions and attempts to advance offensive operations, and it is important that each of these attempts falters thanks to the resilience of our units and active defense,” Zelenskyy emphasized.
According to him, the Russian army has significantly fallen short of its command’s expectations for this summer.
“Our units will continue to destroy the occupiers and do everything possible to bring the war onto Russian territory. We are preparing our new long-range strikes,” the President stated.
Zelenskyy stressed that there will be an invariably tough response to every Russian attack on Ukrainians.
“The Commander-in-Chief reported on the entirely justified elimination of the Russian killers who took the life of a one-year-old boy in the Kherson Region,” the President informed.