Zelensky says Russia has no 'iota of courage to admit defeat and withdraw'

'They no longer have strategic strength, character or understanding of what they are doing here on our land,' the Ukrainian president said.

said that Russia's military is too cowardly to concede defeat, and touted his own country's military prowess as a counter-offensive is launched in southern Ukraine.

Zelensky said in the speech that Russian occupiers"will not have a safe rear anywhere on our land." He said that intercepted communications of Russian soldiers show they are"truly afraid of our armed forces." Russia's military is able to sustain conflict, nearly in its fifth month, on the"basis of bottomless stocks of old Soviet weapons," he said.

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