Ukraine's Zelenskiy mocks Putin for saying war is going to plan

Ukraine's Zelenskiy mocks Putin for saying war is going to plan

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mocked Moscow's insistence that the war against his nation was going well and asked how President Vladimir Putin could have approved a plan that involved so many Russians dying, Qazet.az reports according to Reuters.

Moscow said on March 25, its most recent update, that 1,351 soldiers had been killed since the start of the campaign. Ukraine says the real number is closer to 20,000.

Qazet.az can't verify any of these claims.

"In Russia it was once again said that their so-called 'special operation' is supposedly going according to plan. But, to be honest, no one in the world understands how such a plan could even come about," Zelenskiy said.

"How could a plan that provides for the death of tens of thousands of their own soldiers in a little more than a month of war come about? Who could approve such a plan?"

Zelenskiy asked how many dead Russian soldiers would be acceptable to Putin, giving a range of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Zelenskiy said that while some had made fun of the Russians, their failures in the field and inferior technology, their opponents were not all hopeless.

"We must understand that not all Russian tanks are stuck in fields, not all enemy soldiers simply flee the battlefield and not all of them are conscripts who do not know how to hold weapons properly," he said.