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I was Ukraine’s defence minister. Here’s my message for our allies: we must not lose sight of victory | Oleksii Reznikov

To my defence ministers friends around the world, I say: thank you for the military support, but heed this advice

How long is 671 days? In the context of modern history, it is perhaps the equivalent of a few seconds. But for me, it accounts for a period of time during which more has happened to Ukraine than many countries go through in a century. It is also the number of days that I served as my country’s minister of defence.

I took up the position on 4 November 2021, when Ukraine had been facing Russian hybrid warfare for eight years. Within 112 days, the Kremlin had begun full-scale warfare – unknown to Europe since the second world war. Ukraine became the first state in the world forced to wage war against an aggressor in five domains at once: land, air, water, and the informational and cyber environments.

Oleksii Reznikov was Ukraine’s minister of defence from 2021-23

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