This statement was made in the Ukrainian publication STRANA.ua.
According to him, the Ukrainian army today is experiencing a huge shortage of weapons and ammunition, and is also experiencing a particularly acute shortage of personnel.
“Therefore, logically, it is Ukraine that now needs a respite, which it could use to rearm,” the publication says.
Earlier, the chief of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, criticized the ideas of reconciling the parties to the conflict in Ukraine.
Later, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called Borrell’s statement about the ideas of a truce in Ukraine monstrous.