Ukrainska Pravda
Tue, December 26, 2023
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated that only a steady increase in Russian army losses can stop Russian aggression, although the Russian leadership has so far disregarded casualties as the war rages on.
Source: Zaluzhnyi during a briefing
Quote: “It’s quite hard to predict how many more casualties are necessary to bring this to an end. I believe we must do this steadily [inflict casualties on the Russian occupying forces – ed.] until the war is over, until the enemy gives up fighting against our country.”
Details: Zaluzhnyi stressed that the losses Russia has suffered in the war would have stopped any other country but Russia.
“What’s happening on the contact line is there are piles of bodies and no one is even bothering to take them away. More and more bodies appear there every day. Unfortunately, that’s the Russian attitude towards its people,” Zaluzhnyi said.
Background: The total combat losses of Russian troops between 24 February 2022 and 26 December 2023 are estimated to be about 354,960 military personnel.
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“…only a steady increase in Russian army losses can stop Russian aggression…”
This is a strategy for a military force that does not have the means for any other. Ukraine needs the right tools to conduct a totally different strategy to help end this war sooner. It also needs the permission to enter mafia land itself, for this is the easiest path to encircle and then destroy large mafia forces.
None of this is currently available to Ukraine. The powers to be who could make this possible are still stuck in 2014. In other words, with their heads up their asses.
“It also needs the permission to enter mafia land itself”
Ukraine doesn’t need permission to do that; they need permission to do so using Western-supplied equipment. The West is worried that putler will say that using Western-supplied stuff on Russian territory leaves the West open to attack by Russia.
In my opinion, what the West needs to do (in addition to supplying more of what Ukraine needs) is to privately tell Zelenskyy, “We’re going to continue saying you shouldn’t use our stuff to attack Russian territory. But if you do, all we’ll do is say “Tsk, tsk” – we’re not going to shut off the spigot.”