'Ukrainian forces could reach Crimea by Christmas and end the war by the spring, according to Volodymyr Havrylov, Ukraine's deputy defence minister.'
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Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine 'could reach Crimea by Christmas', November 19, 2022
'..our objective is to liberate the whole Ukrainian land from the Russian occupation. We will not stop on this way under any circumstances . . . The only term for negotiation: Russia must leave all the captured territories..''After General Mark Milley, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, suggested Kyiv could use winter to reach a settlement with Russia, Zaluzhnyi, who rarely speaks out in public, demurred. In a Facebook post he said he had told his US counterpart in a phone call this week that “our objective is to liberate the whole Ukrainian land from the Russian occupation. We will not stop on this way under any circumstances . . . The only term for negotiation: Russia must leave all the captured territories”.
A US military official praised Zaluzhnyi’s ability to react swiftly to Russia’s movements and failures. As an example he cited the defence of Kyiv in the early days of the war, where Russian troops overstretched their supply lines and became bogged down, only to be battered by Ukrainian units operating on their flanks.
“He kept his forces agile and never allowed them to get fixed. Staying on the move is difficult and takes discipline,” the official said.
In the battle for Kyiv, Zaluzhnyi’s decision to disperse Ukrainian air defences was crucial to preventing Russia from attaining full air superiority, the official added.'
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‘We hit them with slingshots’: Ukraine’s ‘iron general’ shows his mettle, November 18, 2022
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