On the first spring day, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba published a post on Facebook in which he cited five major defeats Ukraine has inflicted on Russia since Feb. 24, 2022:
On March 1, 2023, Putin suffered his fifth major defeat since the day of the full-scale invasion – Ukraine defeated his winter terror.
We have withstood the toughest winter in our history. We were cold and dark, but we were adamant.
Our partners stood with us shoulder to shoulder with their help. Despite Moscow’s horse laugh, the EU has also won, not freezing without Russian gas. One piece of advice for Russia: suffocate with your gas and choke on your missiles.
So, this is the fifth defeat.
The first defeat was when we did not allow Putin to paralyze us with fear from the first minutes of his offensive.
The second was when we thwarted the Russian blitzkrieg plan. Ukraine fell neither in three days nor in seven, nor in a month, nor in a year. And will never fall.
We inflicted the third defeat on the Russian Federation on the diplomatic front: the world coalition for Ukraine, resolutions, isolation, flows of weapons, sanctions, and energy, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
The fourth defeat is Russia’s loss of a large part of the occupied territories of Ukraine as a result of the effective actions and counterattacks by Ukraine’s Armed Forces and the rest of the Defense Forces.
There is still a hard way to go until our ultimate victory. But we already know how to win. We have to work for it every day and believe in Ukraine.
