{"id":202859,"date":"2022-07-12T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=202859"},"modified":"2022-07-12T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:36:01","slug":"defence-minister-ukraine-to-amass-million-strong-army-to-recapture-territories-taken-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/12\/defence-minister-ukraine-to-amass-million-strong-army-to-recapture-territories-taken-by-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister: Ukraine to amass &#8216;million-strong army&#8217; to recapture territories taken by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has disclosed its plan to raise a &#8220;million-strong army&#8221; equipped with NATO weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine is entering it&#8217;s 5th month and Russia has taken territories in the South and Eastern part of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Retaking the areas around the Black Sea coast was vital to the country&#8217;s economy, Oleksii Reznikov said just hours after an attack on a block of flats on Sunday killed at least 18 people &#8211; with more than 20 feared buried under the rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers are still looking for survivors at the site of the five-storey building in Chasiv Yar, near the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region which has been the focus of a Russian push.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview with The Times newspaper, Reznikov praised the UK for being &#8220;key&#8221; in the transition from providing Ukraine with Soviet-era weapons to Nato-standard air defence systems and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>He said weapons deliveries needed to go faster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need more, quickly, to save the lives of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/07\/soldiers-guarding-vicinity-removed-24-hours-before-kuje-prison-attack\/\">soldiers<\/a>. Each day we&#8217;re waiting for howitzers, we can lose a hundred soldiers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have approximately 700,000 in the armed forces and when you add the national guard, police, border guard, we are around a million strong,&#8221; the defence minister said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>Reznikov said an offensive to recapture some of the territory taken by Russia was &#8220;politically very necessary&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also economically important, not least to try to resume exports of Ukrainian grain via Black Sea ports.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Ukraine&#8217;s military effort and resources are already being consumed by fierce fighting in the Donbas with Ukraine losing more than half their troops .<\/p>\n<p>But Ukraine&#8217;s confidence has been boosted by the supply of more advanced long-range artillery systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has disclosed its plan to raise a &#8220;million-strong army&#8221; equipped with NATO weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians. 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