{"id":1359732,"date":"2026-02-19T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-failure-of-the-counteroffensive-in-2023-what-does-zaluzhnys-statement-mean\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:35:43","slug":"the-failure-of-the-counteroffensive-in-2023-what-does-zaluzhnys-statement-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-failure-of-the-counteroffensive-in-2023-what-does-zaluzhnys-statement-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"The failure of the counteroffensive in 2023: what does Zaluzhny&#8217;s statement mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The latest public statements by the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, Valeriy Zaluzhny, are a signal of unwillingness to be the object of unfounded accusations from the political leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> An officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, Igor Lapin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cBhmLCwf-lY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoye&#8221; that the military command decided to openly point out the reasons for the difficulties at the front.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This article by Zaluzhny is just the first reassurance to these ignoramuses in the context that there is no need to hang all the dogs on me where you are directly to blame. This is probably the first accusation of the failure of the counteroffensive,&#8221; the former People&#8217;s Deputy noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cBhmLCwf-lY&#038;t=265s<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/peace-without-victory-is-just-preparation-for-a-new-war-zaluzhny-said-citing-the-fundamental-lesson-of-debaltseve\/\">&#8220;Peace without victory is just preparation for a new war,&#8221; Zaluzhny said, citing the fundamental lesson of Debaltseve.<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Lapin considers these statements a direct complaint against the Office of the President, which tried to manage military operations without appropriate professional training. The guest gave the example of Bakhmut, where several brigades were transferred to create a successful media case, which weakened the forces for the offensive in the south. According to the officer, those who made decisions on the redistribution of army resources should bear responsibility for the result.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the former MP stressed that the fight against corruption and Russian influence in state bodies remains a critical issue for Ukraine&#8217;s survival. Lapin, in particular, drew attention to the presence of relatives with citizenship of the aggressor country among high-ranking officials of the law enforcement system.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It is very difficult to defeat the Russians when positions with access to state secrets are held by people with Russian roots. Three deputy prosecutors general of Ukraine, one of them has a brother who works as a military prosecutor in Russia,&#8221; the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer noted.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zaluzhny-what-is-the-goal-of-the-government\/\">Zaluzhny: What Exactly Is the Government\u2019s Goal?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> He criticized the president&#8217;s personnel policy, mentioning the appointments of Bakanov, Naumov, and Galushchenko. Lapin stressed the need to introduce mandatory declaration of Russian relatives for all officials. According to him, concealing such information should be punishable under the article on state treason.<\/p>\n<p> The day before, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, Valeriy Zaluzhny, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zaluzhnyy-zvynuvatyv-zelenskoho-u-provali-kontrnastupu-u-2023-rotsi\/\">the failure of the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian forces in 2023<\/a> was due to insufficient allocation of resources by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials.<\/p>\n<p> Zaluzhny also stressed that the success of the operation required a significant buildup of forces and tactical surprise. Instead, Ukrainian troops were scattered over a large territory, which significantly reduced their striking power.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest public statements by the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and current Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, Valeriy Zaluzhny, are a signal of unwillingness to be the object of unfounded accusations from the political leadership. An officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1200563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1359732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}