OREANDA-NEWS. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the situation on the Ukrainian-Russian border is now no worse than in the spring, and believes that there are fewer Russian troops there now.

"The situation is definitely not worse than it was in the spring, I believe that the number of military personnel is now there is less. I believe that there are more of them than at the time of the ceasefire, which we agreed on, there are more of them, we often see rotation," Zelenskiy during a press conference Friday on the equator of his cadence.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian President Vladimir Putin should publicly say that Russia is not preparing a "full-scale attack" on Ukraine, now this signal would be important.

“If they don’t think about escalation, then it seems to me that when I say that we are definitely not advancing anywhere, we are defending our country, then the Russians and the President of the Russian Federation should also, it seems to me, publicly say that we are not planning. least publicly, or we are ready to talk, we have said more than once - you don’t want meetings, let's talk on the phone. Let's say publicly that the Russian Federation is not preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This signal would be important now, "Zelensky said during the press -conference on Friday dedicated to the equator of his cadence.