They are likely to arrive sometime next year.Ĭommander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Harding writes that it remains to be seen if the delivery of F-16 jets promised by the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium will help Ukraine on the battlefield. “Ukraine’s armed forces need key military capabilities and technologies to break out of this kind of war. “Just like in the first world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” Zaluzhnyi was quoted as saying in an interview published alongside the article. Luke Harding digested Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s frank article in the Economist. Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has warned that the war is moving towards a grim new stage of static and attritional fighting, a phase that could allow Moscow to rebuild its military power. “This is the highest number of cities and villages that have come under attack since the start of the year.”
“Over the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 settlements in 10 regions,” Igor Klymenko, the Ukrainian interior minister, wrote on social media on Wednesday. The Russians have fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since invading in February 2022, reducing several settlements to rubble across the eastern part of Ukraine. During the week, Russia shelled more than 100 settlements in a single 24-hour period, in what Ukraine said was the biggest bombardment so far this year.
