DISINFO: General Zaluzhnyi admitted the failure of Ukraine war against Russia
SUMMARY
The Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, recognized the situation on the battlefield as a dead end for Ukraine. The counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces officially failed and this is Zaluzhnyi’s official admission. Given the balance of power between Russia and Ukraine, this was inevitable. Nothing will help Ukraine, and the timing of the final capitulation depends on how quickly the Kyiv regime recognises the futility of destroying its own people in new waves of mobilisation.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine’s alleged failure on the battlefield, part of a wider disinformation campaign to promote the idea of a failed Ukrainian counteroffensive, the inevitability of Russia’s victory and ultimately the need to compromise and accept Russia’s terms. The allegation also serves to portray the Ukrainians as the “evil side”, as an attempt to justify Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
The claim misrepresents General Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s statements in an article for The Economist.
The Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, did not make any statements about the “failure of the Ukrainian army” in the Russian war or about the “necessity of capitulation” of Ukraine.
The General said that the Russian army, having a strategic superiority in military, economic, human, natural resource and scientific potential and relatively appropriate conditions for its implementation, “are still not able to fully implement the plans of the Russian General Staff. ” At the moment, Zaluzhnyi emphasises, resource-limited Ukraine has achieved parity in forces with Russia - in the air, mine-explosive barriers, counter-battery and electronic warfare, and the creation of reserves.
To avoid a prolongation of the war and its entrenchment, Zaluzhnyi named priority areas for the development of Ukraine. The solution is to attract new military and information technologies, summarised the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the Russian army prioritises its soldiers’ lives Ukraine sends its troops to slaughter, that Ukraine is training pensioners as tank crews because its military reserves are gone, that Ukraine’s armed forces kill the wounded and sell their organs, that Ukraine is using anti-retreat troops to shoot in the back those soldiers who try to surrender, or that Western weapons are of no help to Ukraine’s failing counteroffensive.