Zelenskyy says "battle in the sky" will be decisive in war against Russia

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the decisive phase of Russia's war against Ukraine has shifted from land and sea to the air, with the "battle in the sky" set to determine the outcome.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with Financial Times

Quote: "Today I believe victory in this war belongs to whoever is smarter. If you stop the enemy on the battlefield, if you stop the war on land, and if you deny him dominance at sea – as we did with our naval drones, driving the Russian fleet away – then the next battlefield becomes the sky."

Details: Zelenskyy said "it matters far less whose territory is larger". "We have moved into the air domain. And in the air, we are already competitive," he added.

The president also noted that Ukraine's ability to produce and deploy long-range drones has transformed the war, enabling Kyiv to strike military and energy facilities ever deeper inside Russia, blunting Moscow's war machine.

Quote: "If our partners do not abandon Ukraine financially, if our soldiers continue holding the front, if every kilometre of Russian advance continues to cost them tens of thousands – and sometimes hundreds of thousands – of personnel, then the decisive struggle will take place in the skies.

Because the skies will determine the outcome of this war."

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