Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, stated on Aug. 26 that the Zelenskyy regime had launched its preparations for war on Russia with its deliberate rejection of any compromise options offered in the last Minsk Agreement session in December 2019.
“We have been preparing for a war, and preparing very massively. And the fact, that as of today, we have already weathered 180 days of the war and we are on our own territory, we haven’t yielded it, this indeed shows that we have been gearing up for the war,” Danilov told the NTA TV channel, according to TASS.
“And our preparations for the war began after Dec. 8-9, 2019.... When on Dec. 8-9, 2019 in Paris, our country’s President Zelenskyy did not agree to those conditions offered to us by Russia, France, Germany.… He said: ‘No, friends, there will be no Minsk-3, we will stand up for our country.’ The following day we began to realize that a big war with the Russian Federation was imminent,” he told NTA.
