Ukraine’s top military commander said this week that his troops are locked in a “stalemate” with Russia and that “no deep and beautiful breakthrough” is on the horizon.
In an interview with The Economist, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny said breaking the existing deadlock would require technological advantages that would give Ukraine air superiority and increase the precision and effectiveness of its artillery fire.
And if this does not happen, Zaluzhny fears his forces could be drawn into years of bloody World War I-style trench warfare, a war of attrition in which Russia would have the advantage due to the sheer size of its army.
So, how worried should we be? On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with James Sherr, a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Defense and Security, and veteran journalist Michael Weiss, senior correspondent at Yahoo News and director of special investigations at the Free Russia Foundation. Also on the podcast, we discuss the interdependence between Russia’s war on Ukraine and that between Israel and Hamas.
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SHOW NOTES
The essay by Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, which was discussed on the podcast can be accessed here.
James Sherr’s article, “Putin’s Gaza Front,” can be accessed here. James Sherr’s other published work can be accessed here and here.