Zelenskyy: Russia's war against Ukraine has lasted as long as Nazis' war against USSR

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has noted that Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted as long as Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union (known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union), and that in all that time, Russia has achieved no significant results and at least 1,000 of its troops are killed every day.

Source: Zelenskyy's evening address

Quote: "We are not dragging out time – unlike Russia. They have already dragged things out enough, to be honest. Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has now lasted as long as Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union.

Today is the 1,418th day of Russia's war against Ukraine. They wanted to repeat it ["We can do it again" is a Russian anti-Nazi slogan equivalent to "Never again" – ed.] – and repeat it they did: they've repeated the abuse of people, repeated fascism, repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century. They even additionally invented warfare with Shaheds and ballistic missiles against power plants and boiler houses.

But still, the Russians are trying to seize the same Donbas as almost four years ago. They want to lie once again that they 'took' Kupiansk. They keep dying endlessly in the fields of Zaporizhzhia region. And they are still fighting against Ukraine only – with all the help from our partners, it is only our people who are holding the front."

Details: Zelenskyy said that since December, Russia has lost at least 1,000 troops (killed) per day.

"This is how Russia is essentially paying just to keep the war from ending. This is madness. And this Russian madness can only be stopped by combined forces – the forces of Europe and the United States, the forces of all our partners. Every day of this war is a reminder that the world cannot protect itself from madmen. We must protect it. Russia must be stopped," he said.

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