Zelensky:

Zelensky:

No one expected them to pass through Belarus and advance to the capital.

That's why we didn't have strong soldiers there. This is an absolute fact.

We simply did not have such an army.

Just imagine 200,000 people coming to you. It simply cannot be defended.

You need an army like the one we have today, 800,000.

We held our ground and destroyed them. They did not have enough soldiers to hold the occupied territories, and they had to retreat.

This is how we fully recovered the Kyiv region, the Chernihiv region and this entire front.