Thread by @armyinformcomua

Minister of Defence @oleksiireznikov
Dear #Ukrainians!

Many of our fellow citizens consciously or subconsciously perceived May 9 as a kind of rubicon. After all, the #Kremlin has repeatedly demonstrated a thirst for deluded symbolism.
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The information space was full of expectations that something "special" would happen before or directly on this day. Such that will determine the course of the war or give a clue as to the time of its end.
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That day is over. Many people are now a little confused and ask - what's next? What to expect? How to plan your life?
To begin with, I will focus on what happened in the last 78 days of the war, which began more than 8 years ago.
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What happened on the battlefield?
After 🇷🇺open full-scale attack on February 24, 🇷🇺was planning, and many in the West were of the same opinion, that 🇺🇦would surrender in a few days. 🇷🇺hoped to establish a new - "#Russian" - system on our land in a few weeks.
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Our defenders, the entire 🇺🇦 people, repulsed 🇷🇺 occupiers and thwarted 🇷🇺 plans.
The conditional period "until May 9" began, when 🇷🇺 troops, who had suffered heavy losses, were defeated near #Kyiv and were unable to achieve any strategic goal, and changed their tactics.
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They fled from #Zhytomyr, #Kyiv, #Chernihiv, #Sumy and set new goals - to capture the south and east of #Ukraine. But this did not happen again. Thanks to the mass heroism of our soldiers, the unity of #Ukrainians, and international support, Ukraine has survived.
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The defenders of #Mariupol - the Marines, @ng_ukraine, in particular, from the #Azov Regiment, the Mariupol Territorial Defense Battalion, border guards, police, intelligence, Security Service fighters - have saved us time and saved many lives.
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🇺🇦army in Joint forces operation, as well as in #Kharkiv, #Zaporizhia, #Kherson, #Mykolayiv regions restrained the onslaught of the enemy. #Izyum, #Popasna, #Rubizhne, #Avdiivka, #Marinka and more are the real cities of Heroes and places of military glory of #Ukrainians.
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Resistance in #Melitopol, #Kherson and other cities is an important contribution to the common victory.
Thus, by May 9,🇷🇺had suffered a strategic defeat - it could not destroy 🇺🇦 through military intervention and change of power to 🇷🇺 puppets.
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We forced it to reduce the scale of objectives to the operational and tactical level.
We are entering a new - long-lasting - phase of the war. To win it, you need to carefully plan resources, avoid mistakes, design 🇺🇦strength so that the enemy, in the end, can not stand.
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Full text of the statement.
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