"Has a symbolic meaning": Zelensky does not deny the possibility of Russian offensive on Kharkiv

The Russian soldiers tried to capture Kharkiv at the beginning of a full -scale invasion. The Armed Forces is doing everything possible to happen again, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Kharkiv for the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin is symbolic, and therefore the invaders can try to capture it. This was reported by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with Bild.

According to Zelensky, Putin tried to capture Kharkiv at the beginning of a full -scale invasion, because this city is of great symbolic importance. "Kharkiv is one of the capitals of Ukraine, so it is of great symbolic meaning," said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and said that the military of the Armed Forces is doing everything possible to prevent it. The President stressed that the attacks of the enemy on Ukrainian energy have a great impact on the war.

In particular, they cause "great pain to the population and cities. " Instead, the country has insufficient number of air defense systems, while Putin only understands force and behaves "as an animal" - if you cannot protect yourself, it will destroy more. "His desire is to take possession of a whole Ukraine," he said. Zelensky said that in the absence of a new US package from the United States, Putin can destroy and kill many people. "Most people will not escape, so he will kill many of them.

What will it look like? There will be a lot of blood. There will be many casualties, many losses. We are talking about hundreds of thousands," he said. We will remind, on April 7, the chairman of Kharkiv Ova Oleg Synigubov told about consideration of the possibility of forced evacuation of citizens through shelling of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. According to him, more than 20 settlements are constantly under the blows of the invaders.