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War between Ukraine and RussiaDossierAfter Ukraine had hoped for a quick and effective response, it has to face the facts: the conflict is deadlocked and mutating into a long war with almost equal forces. New strategies are emerging at the front and around Zelensky.
War is sport, plus weapons, to paraphrase George Orwell. And artillery, tanks, mine-clearing systems and aviation… Ukraine lacked a lot of things quantitatively or was simply absent so that the counteroffensive launched in June could achieve a sufficient breakthrough to regain territories from the Russian occupier and influence the balance of existing forces. Of course there are always two points of view. “We have reached a technological level that puts us in a dead end,” admitted General Valery Zalouzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, in an interview with The Economist magazine, calling for a new innovative and asymmetrical technological approach to prevent the bogeyman a “war of position” similar to the First World War.
Zaluzhny’s departure, aimed at the attention of American congressmen, naturally sparked a lively debate in Kiev as well as a clarification from Volodymyr Zelensky. “I don’t think we’re at an impasse,” the president responded on NBC. We have done a lot, we have experienced a very difficult situation. [Les Russes] thought they would