Podolyak told what instruments needed to liberate Ukraine

Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the presidential office, said this on his Telegram.

According to him, Russia's goal is to accumulate resources, try to seize the initiative and freeze the war indefinitely. At the same time, Russia also wants to drag Ukraine into futile information confrontations and gain a foothold in the seized territories.

Ukraine has a completely different goal - to destroy the residual resource of Russian combat capability, inflict several major tactical defeats, break the defences in the occupied territories and dramatically increase the pace of de-occupation.

Podolyak believes that Ukraine needs specific tools to achieve these goals:

1. Air defence systems - to close the skies and keep citizens and cities safe, protect critical infrastructure and transport logistics. Fighter jets (like the F16) are also needed to effectively destroy ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
2. Heavy-calibre projectiles - 155mm or 152/122mm - are needed to destroy large volumes of Russian mobilisations and to avoid direct combat encounters.
3. Long-range missiles - 150 km and more - are needed to effectively target enemy reserve accumulation sites, destroy large tactical and strategic formations and disrupt rear logistics. This will significantly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Russian army and prolong or complicate their logistics.
4. Unmanned aerial vehicles - strike, reconnaissance, and other drones - are needed to control space and dramatically increase the accuracy of destroying enemy manpower and equipment. They will help create constant tension along the entire frontline and deliver effective point-to-point strikes that create imbalances in specific areas.
5. Armoured vehicles - heavy tanks and armoured personnel carriers - are needed to break the invaders' fortified defences in the occupied territories, to move as quickly as possible along large trajectories. They allow to minimise combat losses and build up the pace of rapid de-occupation, not allowing the enemy to lock onto other positions. This too has an important psychological significance.
6. Assault aviation (together with front-line mobile missile defence/missile defence elements). It is essential for effectively covering the advancing units. Thus, air fire strikes cut a "gap" in the enemy defence ranks and thus minimise our losses.

All the above-mentioned nomenclature of weapons is extremely important at this very stage. In quite specific - mathematically determined - amounts. The partners know exactly the logic and mathematics of this stage.