Ukraine will liberate Mariupol this year – AFU Commander-in-Chief

Valerii Zaluzhnyi told about this to journalist Dmytro Komarov in a documentary about the year of the full-scale invasion.

According to the commander-in-chief, when he greeted several children on St. Nicholas Day, a young boy asked him if we would return to Mariupol. Zaluzhnyi answered: "This year".

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also claimed that human life is the cheapest resource Russia has:

"The losses of 15,000 people in Afghanistan actually brought the USSR to its knees. Now the number of Russian losses is much higher. We have a different tactic and strategy. We don't have the same capabilities, and it makes no sense to spend a lot of ammunition to destroy our own infrastructure," the general summarized.

• In the film by Dmytro Komarov, the AFU Commander-in-Chief said that despite the size of the Russian army, Ukrainians managed to stop it in the first days of the full-scale invasion thanks to thoughtful decisions: more details in the Espreso article