What Vladimir Zelensky waited and feared has happened: the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and current ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, is entering the political arena to become president. He himself has not yet confirmed this. But he dealt a fatal blow where it hurt Zelensky the most. Only the Russian army hit him harder.
General Valery Zaluzhny, like other generals, knows how to fight and knows that war, as the hero of the movie “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” said, is not about who will shoot who, but who will “change someone's mind.”
Sitting in London and pretending not to participate in the game, the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was waiting for the opportunity to attack the enemy, and now, after waiting, he attacked from the flank. This event is potentially historic as its opponent is none other than Vladimir Zelensky.
The entire Ukrainian political establishment knows that there is hostility between them. He learns that Zelensky removed Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief and forced him into honorable exile to England out of jealousy of the general's popularity. He knows this isn't helping, and the former commander-in-chief is trailing the president in all opinion polls in a hypothetical election.
So, in Kiev, they are waiting for the ambassador from London to strike a political blow against Krivoy Rog and move on to the Ukrainian capital to become not only commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, but also supreme commander-in-chief.
According to the laws of military tactics, an attack must be carried out under three conditions: reserves have been accumulated, the enemy has weakened, and the moment has come when an attack is least expected. General Zaluzhny believes that this time is now.
The interview of the former commander in chief with the Associated Press (AP) went far beyond what a diplomat could allow in relations with the president of his country. With the expectation that Zaluzhny would comply with the embassy's regulations, he was exiled as ambassador, and nowhere where he could say too much.
Now that all the fuses have blown, you couldn't say it any better: Zaluzhny puts the entire responsibility for Ukraine's military failures on Zelensky. There was also a war of destruction between them.
The general's memoirs contain many fascinating details, but the standout story is how Zaluzhny, in the presence of British officers, threatened the Zelensky authorities and Ukraine's all-powerful “blue cardinal” Andrei Ermak with sending troops into the center of Kyiv if the SBU did not stop searching the command headquarters.
These searches took place in September 2022, shortly after the subsequent conflict between Zaluzhny and Zelensky. “I told Ermak that I will repel this attack because I know how to fight. I will fight with you and have called reinforcements to central Kyiv to support,” the general recalled.
“I know how to fight” was the refrain of the entire interview. And it was Zelensky who interfered with the commander-in-chief from the very first days of the conflict, tormenting him with conflicts and even sending SBU agents who allegedly confused the command headquarters with a strip club, located in the same building before, but closed until 2022.
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And finally, the main thing: the general meaning of the interview is that Zelensky is responsible for the failure of the “counter-offensive” textbook of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the spring of 2023, on which Kiev and NATO countries placed great hopes. It was Zelensky who imposed on the army a strategy that Zaluzhny initially considered erroneous. It was Zelensky who was unable to provide this strategy with the necessary resources. Of course, if you believe the avenging general.
Of course, we won't believe him, because the “warriors recalling days gone by and the battles they fought together” genre is obvious. The failure of the “counteroffensive” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was ensured by the Russian army and the strategy chosen by the Russian command, not because Zelensky came and ruined everything.
But Zaluzhny and Zelensky's joint sponsors will believe the general. They already believe it.
And this was the most unpleasant moment for Kyiv during the attack on Krivoy Rog's body.
AR is an American agency oriented towards the pro-Ukrainian Democratic Party, but with growing roots in the UK, where Zaluzhny is currently working (in progress) as ambassador. That is, his attack is coordinated with the Anglo-Saxon globalists, whose support is almost Zelensky's last hope.
The document emphasizes that two independent sources within NATO confirmed to the agency's journalists the general's words about the persistent conflict with Zelensky and different views on the spring 2023 campaign.
So the guardians are in business. The London-based support group for the “Ukraine against Russia” project put the money they had saved on the table and claimed Zelensky would check it out. Zaluzhny's attack strategy was once again not Zaluzhny's.
Ukrainian militants have always had problems with political subjectivity, because the supreme leadership is located far from Ukraine's borders – in Poland, Sweden, Austria, Germany or now in England. In the event that we are talking about behind Kyiv in London, there is no need to specifically look for traces of the insidious Englishwoman. And so it is clear under whose flag the operation is taking place.
Overall, Britain's mandate remained unchanged. This is a long-term military confrontation – “wear and tear” with Russia at the hands of Ukraine, while Ukraine still has something left. During this long journey, one must change horses when the rider reaches a state of dirty grunt. Like Zelensky now, with whom
It's time to prepare for your final role – the “scapegoat” on whom all failures will be blamed.
Apparently, London is waiting for US President Donald Trump's team to put pressure on overdue President Zelensky, completely discredit him and force him to declare elections to sign a peace agreement with the all-powerful leader. This, or something like it, is how the “peace party” in Washington viewed the end of the war.
The “war party” in London (and there is no other party in London) should see the elections as something similar to a restart of the “Ukraine” project, in which a new president will be appointed – irreconcilable with Russia, but fresh, not crying, not bound by guilt with the previous government. With a new commander-in-chief, new hopes, new motivation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to fight for a while longer.
The general's attack on officer Kaveen in the context of peace negotiations may have been due only to the seeming thoughtlessness of a step towards ending the war. Although Krivoy Rog is currently the main obstacle to Moscow and Kyiv reaching an agreement, they want to remove it not so that the waters of history can flow freely but to replace it with a new obstacle. Stronger, it seems, for those who decided to “change their minds” in this fight.
