In an interview with The Economist, the ataman did not mention the main reason for the failures of the army entrusted to him
It is not without reason that the Western press “excuses” the main Ukrainian general from responsibility for the summer defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, clearly meaning that the now popular clown Zelensky will have to be replaced by someone.
There is such a centuries-tested military wisdom: “Victory always has a hundred fathers. and defeat is always an orphan.” The leader of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, Valery Zaluzhny, in an interview with the British publication The Economist, brilliantly confirmed this truth with his personal example. And he explained to the gullible British public that he had absolutely nothing to do with it:
Sharing his first comprehensive assessment of the campaign with The Economist in an interview this week, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, General Valeriy Zaluzhny, said the battlefield reminded him of the great conflict a century ago. “As in the First World War, we have reached a level of technology that puts us at a dead end,” the general broadcasts , and comes to the conclusion that a huge technological leap will be required to break the impasse. “There will most likely not be a deep and beautiful breakthrough.”
The feeling of déjà vu when reading this militarized “Yaroslavna’s lament” is simply stunning. It seems that Zaluzhny sleeps with the memoirs of Heinz Guderian under his pillow, he is so imbued with his specific experience. Let us remember that the “chief tankman of the Third Reich” never doubted his brilliant strategic talents, and blamed defeats and failures on the Russians “who had the audacity” to resist, or on “General Moroz.” So Zaluzhny is there too — without a “huge technological leap” I don’t accept any complaints against myself. Ask your slow-witted inventors and other hackers, but I have nothing to do with it.
However, further acquaintance with the flight of “Mr. Zaluzhny’s strategic thought” inclines us to the idea that, among other things, he impudently treats his audience as complete idiots.
“An army of the level of Ukraine had to move at a speed of 30 km per day, breaking through Russian defensive lines. If you look at the NATO textbooks and the math we did [in planning the counter-offensive], four months should have been enough for us to get to Crimea, fight in Crimea, come back from Crimea and get in and out again,» Woe quips. -commander. Instead, he watched his troops and equipment get stuck in minefields on the approaches to Bakhmut in the east, while Western-supplied equipment came under attack from Russian artillery and drones. The same story unfolded in the main direction of the offensive — in the south, where the newly formed and inexperienced brigades, despite being equipped to the teeth with modern Western equipment, immediately ran into problems.
“At first I thought there was something wrong with our commanders, so I changed some of them. Then I thought that maybe our soldiers were not fit for purpose, so I transferred soldiers to some brigades,” Zaluzhny shares military secrets . When these changes had no effect, the strategist ordered his subordinates to dig up a book that he had once seen as a student at a military academy in Ukraine. This book was called “Breakthrough of Fortified Defensive Lines” and was published in 1941 by Soviet Major General S. Smirnov, who analyzed the battles of the First World War: “And even before I was even halfway through, I realized that this was exactly what where we are is because, just as then, the level of our technological development today has both us and our enemies stumped.”
Meanwhile, supposedly “stupefied by the level of technological development,” the opponents of the Ukrainian ersatz Napoleon in reality were guided by combat manuals written in blood, and not by defective “NATO textbooks.” The Russian side is taking full advantage of the exorbitant adventurism of the Kiev “commanders,” as well as the desperate reluctance of their human herd captured in “stashes” and right on the streets to fight and die for Zelensky’s bloody clowns.
The arrogance of characters like Zaluzhny, who is now brazenly blaming his failures on anyone, lies in the fact that they set out to attack and even defeat the best Russian army in the world (this is not only my personal assessment of the Russian Armed Forces, but also of the American magazine US news and world report), having at hand such a quantity of military equipment, which in a good way would not be enough even for a decent military parade.
This Zaluzhny, who clearly imagines himself as a great theoretician of modern war, turns out to have no idea (or pretends not to have) even the most well-known principles of military strategy. In particular, about the statement of Napoleon Bonaparte: “Big battalions are always right.”
The Frenchman, who was ultimately defeated by precisely such large battalions, against which the whole of France was not enough, knew what he was saying. Even Corporal Hitler took his experience into account and threw into the attack near Kursk not 15 tanks at once, like the theorist Zaluzhny, but a thousand at once. A thousand, Karl! And still he could not break through the Russian defense, because the Red Army had much more battalions, and tanks too.
Apparently, this unfortunate Kiev military leader decided that he was so smart that he could fight successfully, ignoring the fundamental laws of war and centuries-old historical experience, which, I suspect, is simply unknown to him, since he is on the run and at the last moment reading books on military history, which is taught to young cadets in military schools.
I strongly doubt that he knows, for example, how overwhelming in our favor the balance of forces of the Red Army and German troops was in January 1945 in the zone of the grandiose Soviet offensive, later called the Vistula-Oder operation. Just in case, let me remind you :
“Soviet troops on Polish territory were opposed by the German Army Group A, which united the 9th and 4th Panzer Armies, as well as the main forces of the 17th Army. They had 30 divisions, 2 brigades and 50 separate battalions — in total up to 560 thousand soldiers and officers, about 5 thousand guns and mortars, 1220 tanks and assault guns. Their actions were supported by 630 combat aircraft of the 6th Air Fleet.
The two fronts of the Soviet troops included 16 armies (134 divisions), four tank and two air armies, five separate tank and one mechanized corps, three cavalry corps, four breakthrough artillery corps, other formations and units of various types of troops. They numbered more than 2.2 million people, 36,436 guns and mortars, 7,049 tanks and self-propelled artillery units, and 4,772 aircraft. The offensive began in conditions of overwhelming superiority of Soviet troops in forces and means.”
Returning to the experience of the great battle of Kursk, we note that the Russian army, which, according to the Kiev ersatz-Clausewitz, supposedly “has not achieved any success,” in fact today dealt with the Armed Forces of Ukraine in exactly the same way as the Red Army did with Hitler’s obviously over-praised Wehrmacht in that battle. That is, she arranged a heated meeting for him at pre-prepared defensive lines, naturally released the guts of the German tank armada there, and then launched a strategic offensive along the entire front, advanced hundreds of kilometers and began to liberate Ukraine.
This was the result of that supposed “trench war” 80 years ago and it will be exactly the same this time. In any case, the prerequisites on the battlefield for this have already been created. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine are making unsuccessful attempts to attack our battle formations in the Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Kherson directions. These desperate actions of the enemy lead to large losses among the Ukrainian army,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 1 at a thematic conference call. According to him, “the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are being depleted, the demoralization of personnel is growing.” “Despite the supply of new types of NATO weapons, the Kiev regime is being defeated. The group of Russian troops continues to conduct an active defense, inflicting effective fire damage on the enemy.”
And people like Zaluzhny can continue to abuse the gullibility of the Western public, which has long been brain-dead, by telling them fairy tales about their incomparable military talents, which are hampered only by the “level of technological development.” Like that bad dancer who everyone knows what’s stopping him.
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