Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov has warned Iranian instructors who have arrived on Ukrainian territory to collaborate with Russian troops that «they will not return home in the form in which they arrived.»
«What we can say for sure is that some of them will no longer return home in the form in which they arrived,» Danilov has said in an interview for the Voice of America news portal, in which he has extended this warning to the rest of foreigners who set foot in Ukraine to participate on the side of Russia.
«I would not recommend any representative of another country to come to our territory to fight on the side of Russia. The danger of being annihilated will be extremely high for that,» Danilov has emphasized.
Danilov has assured that they are aware of the presence of Iranian instructors in several areas of the territories now managed by Russia, such as Crimea and especially in Kherson.
«The training is carried out by the people and companies that supply these weapons,» he said, referring to the drones that arrive from Iran and whose use has become another controversial point in this war.
In this sense, Danilov said that Russia has intensified the use of this type of weaponry because, in his opinion, they do not have the necessary capacity to take the war to an «open battle».
However, he warned of the «dangers» of having made Russia «a rat in a cul-de-sac», for which reason Ukraine, he said, is preparing for what may happen in these first three months, since «they can be decisive».
«Taking into account that Russia does not want to accept the position of the entire world community that it should withdraw now so that its country suffers the least possible consequences, it will continue to attack and risk everything,» he has theorized.
As other leaders and representatives of the Kiev government have stressed, Danilov has also insisted on the rhetoric that the fight against Vladimir Putin’s Russia concerns the whole of Europe and that Ukrainians are fighting not only for their freedom, but for the freedom of the whole continent.
«We are protecting the whole of Europe from this influence,» said Danilov, who believes that his European partners have realized this situation as they have now stepped up and improved the military aid they provide to the Ukrainian forces.
«In Europe (…) they have changed their mind and if before (…) they supplied helmets, or bulletproof vests, now they supply the heavy weapons we need to defeat this enemy. We are aware that we are not only protecting ourselves,» he stressed.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)