Ukraine’s embattled army chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, says Ukraine must adapt to a reduction in military aid from its key allies and focus ever more strongly on technology if it is to win its war against Russia.
In an exclusive essay for CNN, submitted amidst a swirl of rumors surrounding his future, Zaluzhnyi also addressed the challenge of mass mobilization, a source of tension between himself and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The general’s article makes no reference to his relationship with the president, nor to reports Zelensky is poised to announce his dismissal after four years in the job, a move a source said could come within days.
Instead, the military commander seeks to build on an argument in an essay published three months ago, in addition to commenting for the first time on a series of political setbacks at home and abroad.
In that first essay, published in the Economist, Zaluzhnyi highlighted the importance of unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities, as a priority for Ukraine, before concluding, “New innovative approaches can turn this war of position into one of maneuver.”
Zaluzhnyi’s characterization of the situation as a war of position – one defined by attrition and a lack of movement on the battlefield – amounted to a recognition that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, launched to great fanfare earlier in 2023, was effectively over.
Russia just go fuck off already
I’m still not sure what the Democrats think their strategy of Republican/ Russian appeasement is going to accomplish.
Fuck russia, including the republican traitor swine.
Damned right. Rs get their orders from Mar-a-lago Mussolini, and he gets his orders from the Kremlin.
They need to give the funds and weapons to israel so they can keep slaughtering Palestinians.
embattled? Stop the russian propaganda, CNN.
He’s legit embattled and people have been trying to figure out what’s up in Ukraine too. Very different stories publicly and behind the scenes.
Seems like he was told he was being fired last week then people unhappy about it leaked it. Now it’s up in the air. Zelensky was pissed that he keeps making political statements and now he’s making these very political statements. There’s definitely a bit of a standoff between two very popular leaders going on.
You’re pushing a russian propaganda narrative.
False.
Neither myself nor the Kyiv Independent are pushing a Russian propaganda narrative. The dispute between Zelenksy and Zaluzhnyi is well-documented in Ukrainian media over the last week. In addition to the Kyiv Independent, it’s been covered by The New Voice of Ukraine, Ukrainska Pravda, and Euromaidan Press (and probably others). All of those media organizations are high credibility and none of them are known publishers of Russian propaganda.
Based on rumors from randoms with axes to grind. It’s BS.
Source?
They informed the US government that they were replacing him earlier today. It wasn’t likely a nobody who informed them.
“people familiar with the matter” More randoms.
That I don’t believe. There’s no way WaPo would publish with a rando source. They trusted the source enough that they published follow-up articles.
Edit: looks like it was independently verified by Reuters too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an exclusive essay for CNN, submitted amidst a swirl of rumors surrounding his future, Zaluzhnyi also addressed the challenge of mass mobilization, a source of tension between himself and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In that first essay, published in the Economist, Zaluzhnyi highlighted the importance of unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities, as a priority for Ukraine, before concluding, “New innovative approaches can turn this war of position into one of maneuver.”
Zaluzhnyi’s characterization of the situation as a war of position – one defined by attrition and a lack of movement on the battlefield – amounted to a recognition that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, launched to great fanfare earlier in 2023, was effectively over.
But domestic problems are clearly a concern, as when Zaluzhnyi references the apparent reluctance of his political masters in Kyiv to get fully behind his call for greater mobilization for up to half a million draftees, an acknowledgment of Russia’s overwhelmingly superior troop numbers.
“We must acknowledge the significant advantage enjoyed by [Russia] in mobilizing human resources and how that compares with the inability of state institutions in Ukraine to improve the manpower levels of our armed forces without the use of unpopular measures,” he writes.
In a society possibly reluctant to put large numbers of young men and women directly in harm’s way, remote-controlled drones provide a more acceptable type of combat operation, as he acknowledges.
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