Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday that Russias victory in Ukraine is inescapable in a New Years message to servicemen, as Moscows military project grinds through its 11th month.
In the coming year, I wish to want everybody good health, fortitude, trusted and dedicated comrades ...
Our success, like the New Year, is inevitable, Shoigu said in the video address launched by the Defense Ministry.Shoigu stated that, in the outgoing year, all of us dealt with major trials which the New Year comes during a challenging military-political situation.
Russia sent soldiers into pro-Western Ukraine on Feb.
24, saying it was securing the Russian-speaking population in the east from a supposed genocide by the Ukrainian authorities.Moscows troops have suffered a string of problems on the ground over the past months with the Kremlin in September announcing the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists to sign up with the fighting.
The outbound year will permanently enter the military chronicle of the Fatherland, filled with your never-ceasing deeds, generous courage and heroism in the fight versus neo-Nazism and terrorism, Shoigu stated.
We will constantly remember our pals who compromised themselves while performing combat missions in the name of saving civilians from genocide and violence only for the right to speak Russian, he added.Shoigu said that those celebrating the New Year, a significant holiday in Russia and many ex-Soviet nations, on duty are heroically fulfilling combat missions to safeguard the national interests and security of Russia.