Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, told the City of London’s favorite weekly, The Economist, yesterday: “Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate … there will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.” Rather, the conflict may “drag on for years” and “wear down” the country.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded today that Russia was not in a stalemate and would keep pursuing its “special military operation” against Ukraine. Further, Kiev should have long ago acknowledged that expecting a military defeat of Russia was “absurd.”
