Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov named three possible scenarios for the end of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine.
"The first scenario will be approximately the same as the "good will," the "good will" of the Russians, which was announced by them when they fled from Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, Sumy region and Snake Island. Accordingly, I think it will be broken up into several chains. First we will come out with you to February 24 this year, then there will be some talks on the status of previously occupied Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea, but at the table with our powerful partners," Reznikov said at the Forbes Ukraine "Building Together" conference on Friday.
He stressed that "there will definitely be no Minsk-3, there will be no capitulation agreements, and no one will negotiate with a gun to his head.
"The second option is that we will gradually grind down the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, because it is actually a war of resource against resource. They have more people, territory, tanks, planes, etc., but everything is not modern, everything is old, and they use the meat grinder principle today," Reznikov noted.
The minister pointed out that the second option of victory is not so fast - by the end of this year, perhaps, with the capture of the beginning of the new year.
"The third is more dramatic for the Russian Federation, it is the collapse of the Russian Federation, it is a parade of sovereignties on several different subjects: Tatarstan, Bashkirstan, in the East, etc. You and I will definitely see this in our lifetime, but it's a bit of a long story," Reznikov said.
