Putin is afraid and dangerous, but he has zero chance of capturing us – Secretary of Ukraine's National Security Council

Oleksii Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, has stated that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin cancelled his usual Q&A and end-of-year press conference out of fear. 

Source: Oleksii Danilov, during the 24/7 national joint newscast on 15 December 

Quote: "He’s just afraid of something blowing up somewhere during his conference - some ‘cotton’ or an explosion. Imagine how he would look if that happened during his so-called communication with the people. So of course he is afraid at the moment. [Russian propaganda, initially refusing to use the word ‘vzryv’ (explosion), used ‘khlopok’ (a bang) instead. However, ‘khlopok’ also means ‘cotton’, and this has since become a meme – ed.]

This is very dangerous for us, because a rat who has been cornered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and our entire society – and this refers to all those leaders in the Russian Federation who started the war against our people – of course they are going to fight back. 

So we are ready for this, and we understand what we need to do. Again, I emphasise that these terrorists have zero chance of capturing our land."

Details: Danilov also commented on a joke made by Oleg Nilov, a member of the State Duma [the lower house of the Russian parliament], who promised to give "a boy called Vova from Kyiv" [i.e. Volodymyr Zelenskyy] a missile attack as a New Year present. 

"It wasn’t us who said that. It was them. Believe me, there will be [missile attacks]. Just wait a little while, and they’ll get them. If Volodya in Moscow is waiting for missiles from Kyiv, we cannot refuse him," Danilov said. [Both Vova and Volodya are affectionate forms of the Ukrainian name Volodymyr and the Russian name Vladimir – ed.]

"Two subsonic Neptune missiles sent the Moskva [the flagship of the Russian fleet] to eternity; let’s wait until our next missiles send the other Moscow to the same eternity," he added.

Background: 

• Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated that Russians are going to start an offensive operation, heading to Kyiv again. According to Zaluzhnyi, the Russian Federation could start a major offensive from the east, south or north as early as January or spring. 
• Oleksii Reznikov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, has assumed that Russian troops are preparing for another major offensive in February.
• Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has said that Russian forces could try to resume a full-scale offensive on Ukraine in January or February 2023. 

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