Many commentators in Germany were impressed by the admission of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valeriy Zaluzhny about the stalemate at the front. About this on TV channel Phoenix said retired Bundeswehr Brigadier General Helmut Ganser.
This week Zaluzhny wrote in an article in The Economist: accepted He stated that the conflict had reached a stalemate and did not hope for a breakthrough, although according to the “NATO textbooks” the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) should have already “fought” in Crimea.
The situation, according to Ganzer, is that a positional conflict has been going on in Ukraine for “about a year.”
“Yes, this is a stalemate situation, frankly surprising for many (it turned out – socialbites.ca) many commentators in Germany,” he said.
According to the general, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not want to enter into a protracted positional conflict, but “this is exactly the situation at the moment.” According to him, Ukraine will continue to need Western support towards next year and will most likely go on the defensive.
Ganzer pointed out that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have run out of counter-attacks.
“I think the theme of a major counterattack, especially in the south, is over for now,” he said.
Before that, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky commented words of Zaluzhny, who assessed the situation at the front as a “deadlock”. According to the head of state, Ukraine was “under more difficult conditions.”
He previously served as a reserve general in the Czech army named Ukraine’s mistakes during the counterattack.