President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that a possible pause on the battlefield would benefit Russia, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"This does not lead to a political dialogue with the Russian Federation or anyone else. This pause will only help the Russian Federation," he said at a press conference in Tallinn on Thursday.
He noted that there is an understanding of how much Russians produce today.
"We know how many drones and artillery they produce per day. We see what they lack. Drones and artillery are in very short supply. Missiles are in a very short supply too," Zelenskyy said.
"So far, they have not reached an agreement. And they have already received more than a million artillery shells from North Korea. Why are they doing this? Because they do not have time," the president said.
He noted that "the pause is not just a frozen conflict. It's just a pause that will help them. They do not have time".
The head of state also said that "the support of the population of the Russian Federation for this war is not growing. Their economy is falling, it is not growing. There is a shortage of weapons. That is, the stockpiles - all this is falling, not growing".
In his opinion, "at the beginning of the war, in the first year, Russia lost its combat units. Combat officers, career officers, people with experience of many wars, including Chechnya, Afghanistan, Syrian hostilities, and so on, African wars. They have fought everywhere. They have lost the backbone of their Wagner PMC members. And now they want to mobilise prisoners and build new Wagner brigades out of them".