The secret meeting and a bottle of Zaluzhny's favorite whiskey: "NATOVSKY" helped to move the efforts of the Armed Forces to Zaporozhye

According to journalists, the strategy of Ukraine on the offensive has changed on the border with Poland. New attacks are in the direction of Tokmak, an important stage on the way to the Azov coast. 11 days ago, high -ranking representatives of NATO's military leadership met in a secret place at the border of Ukraine and Poland with the Commander -in -Chief of the Ukrainian Army General Valery Zaluzhny. In the sidelines, the meeting was called "military council".

It was not the average exchange of views: they discussed a slow counter -offensive forces of defense, plans for combat for the winter and a long -term strategy. About it reports The Guardian. The UK was represented at this meeting by Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, who has recently been called in Washington and in Kiev an important actor in the way of Western assistance to Ukraine in confrontation between the Russian invasion. The meeting at the border was preceded by Radakin's visit to Kiev.

He spoke with President Vladimir Zelensky for about 45 minutes, and a few days before Mark Millie called on Zaluzhny to concentrate a counter-offensive on one particular front of the front, and Radakin gave the same advice during an online conference on August 10, as noted by New York Times journalists ". The photo taken during the discussion on the border indicates warm relationships. Radakin, by tradition, brought with him a bottle of Glenmorangie - a favorite whiskey of Zaluzhny.

According to Alexei Danilov, Zaluzhny told him after the meeting that he was "our boyfriend", although Danilov himself preferred a more delicate compliment - "steel eggs" (Balls of Steel). British sources were not too frank after that meeting, but in other Western countries they say that the West has changed its strategy in terms of those negotiations. "I think you can see that they have now focused on the Zaporozhye front," one of the insiders said.

New attacks of Ukraine go to Tokmak - an important stage on the way to the Azov coast to cut in half the grouping of Russian troops and thus destroy the land corridor with Crimea. Tony Radakina was headed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in October 2012. He is the first admiral in this position over the last 20 years.

At a meeting with the Russian establishment in February 2022, less than two weeks before the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Radikin spoke with the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, he said that Russia was not going to attack Ukraine. Radikin asked why a considerable amount of forces were concentrated on the border. Before the discussion, Gerasimov was not ready and could not immediately find some plausible explanation.