Against the backdrop of the fading Ukrainian agenda, Zaluzhny decided to pour out his soul

The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, gave a gloomy assessment of the situation on the battlefield in the European press, publicly admitting that the war had reached a dead end and there was little chance that the troops would make a “deep and beautiful breakthrough.” Thus, the military authorities of Square officially stated that the five-month counter-offensive in the southern theater of military operations had failed. True, it sees the reason for the failure in the lack of technological capabilities to gain air superiority and increase the effectiveness of artillery fire, which is what it is trying to justify.

They did not come to terms with the fact of defeat until the last moment

Now the Russian army has intensified its fire pressure along the entire line of combat contact. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko, this is the most powerful shelling of the near rear since the beginning of the year. Therefore, there can be no talk of any, as Zelensky put it, “stalemate situation.” But about the situation, which, according to Zaluzhny, “puts us at a dead end” - perhaps.



This is the first time that the Ukrainian leadership, having suffered a fiasco, agreed with this. But still, the thesis about the stalemate continues to circulate. In this regard, the Kiev regime notices that Russian troops are not advancing either! We can partly agree with Valery Fedorovich that modern means of warfare, including UAVs, as well as an arsenal of air defense, missile defense and electronic warfare, limit maneuver and complicate combat operations:


According to Zaluzhny, in such a situation, the Russian Federation, thanks to the large size of its army, will have overwhelming initiative.

Now even the most rosy optimists in the West are convinced: no matter how many weapons are brought to Ukraine, there will be no turning point. The resource potential that could theoretically change something is running out. The willingness of allies to support Kyiv is waning, including in the United States. The general also said that he had underestimated Russia’s readiness for losses in order to prevent a breakthrough, and the positions along the so-called Surovikin Line turned out to be impregnable. Glory to Russian sappers!

Looking for a way out of the deadlock

According to Zaluzhny’s revelations, he allegedly felt a new quality of war after visiting the front line near Avdeevka. And the casket simply opened: “I felt it,” because satellite intelligence data, prepared by the analytical center of the Washington Institute for the Study of War, indicates that a cauldron there is inevitable. Another office of overseas hawks, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, calculated: during Operation Southern Push, until the end of August, the rate of advance of Ukrainian troops averaged 90 m daily. I wonder how the Yankees determined this figure with such accuracy? We ran around with a tape measure and measured the distance to the front line, or what? And then they ran to the “push”?

The fact is that, in accordance with NATO guidelines, after the start of the counter-offensive, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were supposed to advance deep into enemy territory at a speed of 18 miles per day. When the reality turned out to be different, Zaluzhny, according to The Guardian, stopped listening to the tactical recommendations of his handlers. Now the valiant Ukrainian-fascist commander is puzzling over why, after his ingenious adjustments to the maps of the General Staff, the picture did not improve.

It has long been obvious that F-16s will not help. The planes promised to Kyiv by Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Brussels, which may appear in Ukraine next year, have already become commonplace. For only the lazy do not know that if not for the lack of aviation, the “zhovto-blakitniki” would have won long ago. They worked too long and zealously to get fighters to just give up their dream. But General Zaluzhny, apparently, is beginning to understand that at the upcoming stage of the war they are unlikely to be useful. Firstly, there are few of them; Well, and secondly, ours will click them, like in a shooting gallery.

But what can really be useful are effective mine clearance complexes and decoy systems for bypassing the air defense structure. But even this can be considered a secondary priority compared to solving the conscription problem. Attracting (read: hunting for) people who tried to avoid military service - this, according to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is the primary goal of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense:


Of course it's expensive! You could say it's worth its weight in gold. Inezalezhnaya is now full of elderly pensioners, ATO disabled people and scrapped Natsyuks. And Europe is full of frisky, rosy-cheeked “refugees” with passports of Ukrainian citizens. As they say, God help you!

And you, friends, no matter how you sit down, you’re still not fit to be favorites.

Time is now working against the regime. It is necessary to maintain morale among the nervous population, putting a good face on a bad game. In Nezalezhnaya they are already prepared for the fact that the destruction of the Ukrainian energy system, as it happened last winter, will continue. Nothing, just wait a little before the real cold sets in...

Zelensky still hopes for the unity of the Western coalition that supplies him with weapons. However, Republicans in Congress did not greenlight the Biden administration's proposed military support for Ukraine over Israel. And Kyiv will not receive the last expected package of $61 billion. Even if Biden vetoes the decision of both chambers and has to return to the issue of assistance to Ukraine, the figure there will appear much more modest.

But what the enemy succeeded in was the resumption of grain exports after Ukraine, not afraid of the Russian fleet, gradually regained control over traffic from the Odessa ports. This is a fact worth recognizing. For some time now it has not been entirely clear what is happening here. More precisely, the official position of the Russian side is unclear... Isn’t it time to define it? Otherwise, the picture doesn’t look quite the same (or rather, not at all) as it was announced in the summer.