President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that Russia is not currently winning the war against Ukraine and is paying a high price for its minor advances.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with NBC News

Quote: "Well, we are not losing this war, and Putin is not winning. And really, his army now is in a weak position. I think so, because really from the beginning of this war, they have occupied 1% of our land, but they've spent 1,300,000 people [to do that] and I think this is a high price for such land.

On the battlefield, he [Putin – ed.] is not winning. That's why he really escalates airstrikes."

Details: The interviewer showed Zelenskyy a chart of Russian air attacks on Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, noting that since January this year, when Donald Trump became US President, the strikes have significantly intensified.

Quote: "It's not about President Trump. Because they increased their capabilities, because they put more money into their own production, because North Korea began to help them, because machine tools came from China for production, because the Iranians gave licences for these drones. A lot of different reasons why he [Putin – ed.] increased [strikes]. But all this shows that he doesn't want to stop this war."

More details: Zelenskyy also said that Trump should apply stronger pressure on Putin than he did on Hamas to end the war in the Middle East.

"Yes, and even more, because Putin is something similar but stronger than Hamas. It's a bigger war, and he has the second army in the world. And that's why more pressure [is needed – ed.]," he said.

Background: According to estimates by British outlet The Economist, if Russia maintains its current rate of advance, they could occupy all of Ukraine's Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts by June 2030, and it would take another 103 years to capture the entire country.

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