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Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to destroy Ukraine, but there is no great danger of an eventual invasion, a senior Ukrainian security official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Speaking to AFP, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said talks on invading Moscow could destabilize Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“Putin wants to destroy our country. Will he succeed? “No, he will not succeed,” Danilov said.<\/p>\n
“Our citizens will defend our country,” he said, adding that the military and civilians would form a broad national “resistance” movement if Russia attacked.<\/p>\n
“We will defend our country. That’s it, “said Danillov.<\/p>\n
Tensions have risen since mid-November when Washington sounded the alarm over a massive gathering of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of plotting an invasion.<\/p>\n
But Danilov, 59, downplayed the risk of a major military escalation, saying Ukrainian officials had not seen any critical danger.<\/p>\n
According to Kiev estimates, the number of Russian troops along the borders of Ukraine has increased from about 93 thousand troops in October to 104 thousand now.<\/p>\n
“We do not think this is a big increase,” Danilov said.<\/p>\n
President’s security aide Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that the authorities did not want to “intimidate the people” with the war talks as this “would destabilize the situation inside the country”.<\/p>\n
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has for years questioned the legitimacy of Ukraine’s borders and insisted that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people.”<\/p>\n
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