Zaluzhny: To get to Crimea, we need to liberate Melit

“In order to reach the borders of Crimea, as of today we need to cover a distance of 84km to Melit. By the way, this is enough for us, because Melit would give us a full fire contr of the land corridor, because from Melit we can already fire at the Crimean Isthmus, with the very same himars and so on,” Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valer Zaluzhny td The Economist in an interview.

General noted that the advance depends on available resources.

“I can calculate, based on the task at hand, what kind of resource is needed to build combat capability,” Zaluzhny explained.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shared a conversation about this with Chief of the United Kingdom's Defense Staff Antony Radakin.

“We are talking about the scale of World War One…that is what Antony Radakin td me. When I td him that the British Army fired a million shells in World War One, I was td, “We will lose Eure. We will have nothing to live on if you fire that many shells.” When they say, “You get 50,000 shells”, the pele who count the money faint. The biggest problem is that they really don’t have it,” Zaluzhny said.

According to him, new big erations can’t be conducted with this kind of resources “even though we are working on one right now.”

As reported, on December 10-11, the Ukrainian army struck three important objects of Russian invaders in and near the temporarily captured Melit: dozens of Russian sdiers were killed and at least 200 wounded.