Zaluzhny accused Zelensky of the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces counteroffensive in 2023

The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in 2023 failed because Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not allocate the necessary resources. This was stated on February 18 by the country's ambassador to the UK, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny in an interview with the Associated Press.

According to the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the initial plan was to concentrate enough forces and try to regain the territories liberated by the Russian army in the Zaporizhia region, and then advance south to the Sea of Azov.

Zaluzhny clarified that success required a large-scale, concentrated build-up of forces and tactical surprise. Instead, he said, the forces spread over a wide area, which weakened their striking power. "The newspaper.Ru" clarifies that the attack by Ukrainian militants stretched in several directions in the Zaporozhye region and in the direction of Artemovsk.

Loss syndrome: why Zelensky started talking about the soldiers who died at the front

According to him, 55,000 soldiers have been killed in four years.

Captured fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on February 10 that during the recruitment of soldiers, employees of territorial recruitment centers (TCCs, an analogue of military enlistment offices in Ukraine) take everyone without distinction, including the disabled and seriously ill. In addition, according to them, there is no military training in Ukraine. One of the prisoners said that the Ukrainian command recruits people indiscriminately and sends them to the front on the principle of "hold on or die."

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