Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses Ukrainian people on the New Year eve, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released December 31, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
Russia is planning a protracted campaign of attacks with Iranian drones to “exhaust” Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
“We have information that Russia is planning a protracted attack using Shahed drones,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “It is probably banking on exhaustion. Exhausting our people, our anti-aircraft defenses, our energy.”
Ukraine, he said, had to “act and do everything so that the terrorists’ fail in their aim, as all their others have failed.”
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