Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), told a forum in Lviv today that there are three components of victory in the war against Russia. The first condition he named was “the collapse of the Russian Federation.” The second and third conditions are Ukraine’s return to the official borders of 1991, and “a statesman’s approach to developing Ukraine” (whatever that means).
The machine translation of the news item from the NSDC today reads: “Victory is when the defragmentation of the Russian Federation takes place, it will disappear from the map within the existing borders and stop poking its nose into other people’s lands.… Victory will be when we return our borders of 1991, bring the last prisoner of war home, and liberate the land from the occupier.… “ Danilov was speaking to the 10th All-Ukrainian Forum on Local Self-Governance in Lviv.
This statement does not come from some mere advisor. The NSDC is chaired by President Zelenskyy, coordinates all matters pertaining to national security and defense, including the military, the SBU security force, etc., with the Center for Countering Disinformation operating as one of its agencies. (https://www.rnbo.gov.ua/en/Diialnist/5748.html )
