"I have no doubt that Russia will go to Kyiv again." Why the Zaluzhny tells the truth

Kirill Budanov, Chief of GUR: "By the end of the year we have to go to the territory of Crimea by the end of the year. " November 19, 2022. Deputy Minister of Defense Volodymyr Gavrilov: "We can go to Crimea, for example, by the end of December. This is possible. It is possible. " December 7, 2022. NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov: "In the spring of the Armed Forces will come to Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea. " December 15, 2022.

The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny: "I have no doubt that the Russian Federation will go to Kyiv again. " These are very different statements. Both in content and emotion. It so happened that Zaluzhny, unlike power speakers, does not play the public and does not try to reassure. He speaks with the world and with Ukrainians, as with adults, which, in principle, is a rarity against the background of total victorious populism.

He says that our army "flows with blood" that the strategic task now is to keep defense and prepare for a new active phase of war, which will start in February-March. He calls not to underestimate the enemy who has a reserve of one and a half million and has prepared 200,000 new soldiers. To do this, we need reserves, and most importantly we need a weapon: "I need 300 tanks, 600-700 BMP, 500 howits. And these benchmarks are also about an adult conversation that few are ready to hear . . .

Our army is now very difficult in cold and wet trenches under Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Hugelar, in the direction of Kreminna and Popasna. This defense line has been built since 2014, and despite the crazy offenses of the Russians, we manage to keep it in the Donbass. However, on the other hand, the Russians build their fortifications, the so -called "Surovikin line" to keep all the captured land road to Crimea. It is a phase of positioning war.

But in February, the one who is now being prepared - will collect reserves and more weapons. We are waiting for a difficult year 2023. Another year of the war. And this year we will grow up again and hope we will draw conclusions. Perhaps someone will finally tell us about something important - about the number of victims of this terrible war, about its highest human price . . . Let Marathoni. Their names are quietly mentioned in candles in dark homes their children, who are forever orphaned.