According to Valery Zaluzhny, former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current ambassador to Great Britain, Ukraine finds itself in a state of “protracted war” from which it is almost impossible to get out. The diplomat’s words appear in The Kyiv Independent.
“As a result, we find ourselves in a protracted war, and I think it is almost impossible to get out of this situation,” he said.
As stated in the material, Zaluzhny, in his speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, criticized Western countries for insufficient support for weapons in 2023. He stated that this was the reason why Ukraine failed to achieve “significant successes” during the counteroffensive.
Moreover, the publication reminds that in November 2023, Western media published comments by Zaluzhny, in which he called the current situation at the front a “deadlock”. These words contradicted the assessments generally expressed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration, which were said to have caused disagreements between them.
8 February Zelenskiy was fired He removed Valery Zaluzhny from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and appointed General Alexander Syrsky to this post. He was born in the Vladimir region and moved to Ukraine in the 1980s, where he led the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces before being appointed commander in chief. From the beginning of the year, Syrsky had been tipped for the commander-in-chief post amid rumors of Zaluzhny’s resignation.
Previously Zaluzhny spoke Against the mobilization of Ukrainian youth.