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Europe can’t afford to get war fatigue, Ukrainians tell Meloni
Italian PM alleged European leaders were fatigued by Russia’s war in Ukraine in a prank call released this week.
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s words were made public as Ukraine pleaded in recent days with the U.S. for more training and weapons | Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
Senior Ukrainian politicians appealed to Europe to not abandon the country after the Italian prime minister unintentionally disclosed during a prank call that European leaders were growing weary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after the country’s unconvincing counteroffensive.
“I see that there is a lot of fatigue … from all the sides,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said to two Russian comedians, pretending to be the president of the African Union in a hoax call, which was made public on Wednesday. “We [are] near the moment in which everybody understands that we need a way out.”
Ukrainian politicians told POLITICO its soldiers are fighting for European values and warned of appeasing Russia. Oleksandr Merezhko, сhairman of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on foreign policy, said that he was aware of some who support making concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin and are waiting to speak about it at the right moment.
Abandoning Ukraine, he said, “would cost Europe and the world very dearly … throwing Europe and the world security system back to the 19th century.”
Meloni’s words were made public as Ukraine pleaded in recent days with the U.S. for more training and weapons as Washington is increasingly distracted by a war in the Middle East, its own government’s divided stance on supplying more aid to Ukraine, and a looming election in 2024.
“Europe should be tired of Russia, not of Ukraine,” Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, a Ukrainian MP and chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Integration of Ukraine to the EU, said. If Ukraine lost the war, she added, it would be the defeat of the free world, not only Ukraine.
In Italy, opposition parties ridiculed Meloni for the breakdown in security protocols, claiming the prank call showed the prime minister’s team was not up to the job, and called for her to report to parliament.
Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, leader of the centrist Italia Viva party, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the fallout was “a humiliation for Italy and for Giorgia Meloni.” Another former prime minister, Giuseppe Conte of the opposition 5Star Movement, which opposes sending more arms to Ukraine, said in a video on social media that Meloni was deceiving Italians. “She continues to send weapons to Ukraine indefinitely and to pursue military escalation while herself aware of the need for a negotiated way out,” Conte said.
Even Meloni’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, said the incident showed “a lack of seriousness” and must not happen again.
Some members of Meloni’s own Brothers of Italy party defended the prime minister, with party whip Tommaso Foti saying Meloni was consistent and transparent in her communication.
Meloni’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
One Ukrainian MP, who was granted anonymity to speak about sensitive matters, told POLITICO that, for now, Ukraine feels supported by allies. “We’ll see how much money they will give us in our next year’s budget,” the MP added.
Exhausted and disappointed with allies, Ukraine’s president and military chief warn of long attritional war
Analysis by Tim Lister
7 minute read
Updated 12:15 PM EDT, Fri November 3, 2023
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/03/world/ukraine-president-warns-long-attritional-war/index.html
Exhausted and disappointed with allies, Ukraine’s
president and military chief warn of long
attritional
war
Analysis by Tim Lister
7 minute
read
Updated 12:15 PM EDT, Fri November 3, 2023
President
of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with the Secretary
General of NATO
Jens Stoltenberg on September 28, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine.Yan Dobronosov/Global Images
Ukraine/Getty
Images
CNN —
Two articles published this week give a
stark assessment of Ukraine’s prospects in its war with Russia.
One – by the commander in chief of the Ukrainian military – admits the battlefield has reached a
stalemate and a long attritional war benefiting Moscow beckons. The other portrays Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky as exhausted by the constant effort to cajole and persuade allies to
keep
the faith.
Ukraine’s military chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny,
says in a long essay and interview with the
Economist that “just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that
puts
us into a stalemate.”
He acknowledges: “There will most
likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,” but instead
an
equilibrium of devastating losses and destruction.
At the
same time, in an interview with TIME’s Simon Shuster, Zelensky says
that “Nobody
believes in our victory like I do. Nobody.” But he adds that instilling those beliefs in Ukraine’s
allies
“takes all your power, your energy.”
Shuster, who has long
had access to the president’s inner circle, portrays Zelensky as
tired and
sometimes
irritable, and anxious that allied commitment is waning.
“Exhaustion
with the war rolls along like a wave. You see it in the United
States, in Europe,” Zelensky
is
quoted as saying.
But Zelensky is fixated with victory and
won’t countenance a truce or negotiations. “For us it would
mean
leaving this wound open for future generations,” he tells
TIME.
Five months after Ukraine launched its much-anticipated
counteroffensive, Zelensky’s fears and
Zaluzhny’s assessment come as the world’s focus shifts to the Middle East and the risk that Israel’s
war
with Hamas might spill over into a broader regional
conflict.
Commander-in-Chief
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny during an event
dedicated to
Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. On August 24, Ukraine celebrates
its 1991 declaration of independence from the USSR.Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine/Getty
Images
Zelensky
himself acknowledges to TIME: “Of course we lose out from the
events in the Middle East.
People
are dying, and the world’s help is needed there to save
lives…”
Stalemate on the front
Ukrainian forces have
taken just a sliver of land since the summer; Russia still occupies
nearly one-fifth
of the country. In some areas, such as around Avdviika and Vuhledar in Donetsk, and near Kupyansk in
Kharkiv,
the Ukrainians are on the defensive, as Russia pours munitions and
men into the battle.
Zaluzhny tells the Economist that the
Kremlin is oblivious to the huge losses sustained by the Russian
army – well over 100,000 men according to many estimates. In the last few days, Ukrainian Defense
Minister Rustem Umerov says Russia has lost 4,000 men around Avdviika alone. Open-source
imagery
suggests the Russians may have lost up to 200 tanks and other
vehicles in that battle.
Zaluzhny seems almost puzzled that
the arsenal supplied to Ukraine by its Western allies, and the
mobilization of several more brigades, has made so little difference. Changing commanders and
moving
divisions have had no impact, he says.
“Four months should
have been enough time for us to have reached Crimea, to have fought
in
Crimea,
to return from Crimea and to have gone back in and out again,” he
adds.
Instead, deep and well-entrenched Russian defenses have
been impossible to penetrate. Even where
dense minefields are penetrated, often at great cost, the Russians restore them through remote
mine-laying.
Ukraine’s
inferiority in the air has stymied advances on the ground, and
Zaluzhny warns that at the
end
of 2023, Russia may deploy new attack squadrons.
The commander
in chief says that at one point he turned to an old Soviet analysis
of the First World
War, entitled “Breaching Fortified Defense Lines.” The similarities with today were striking, he notes.
“I
realized that is exactly where we are because just like then, the
level of our technological
development
today has put both us and our enemies in a stupor.”
The use
of drones and other reconnaissance technology is at the heart of the
stalemate. Zaluzhny
talks about the carnage unfolding around Avdviika as Russia throws dozens of tanks into taking a
few
hundred meters.
“The simple fact is that we see everything
the enemy is doing, and they see everything we are
doing.”
At
the same time he acknowledges that the Russian military has learnt
and adapted. It has improved
logistics chains, factories are churning out new hardware and its electronic warfare capabilities have
blunted
Ukraine’s edge in precision munitions.
Zaluzhny candidly
admits that Russia “will maintain an advantage in armaments,
equipment, rockets,
and
ammunition for some time.”
Kyiv’s wish list
Ukraine’s
military chief says it will take a qualitative leap to break the
remorseless war of attrition
that has set in – just as winter begins to bite. That brutal recognition can only wear down Ukrainian
morale, and not just on the battlefield. Ukrainian civilians will face another cold, dark winter if Russia
renews
its targeting of energy infrastructure.
In his essay Zaluzhny
lists five major requirements for progress – none of them quick
fixes and all of
them demanding renewed commitment from allies. They include gaining air superiority to support
ground operations; breaching Russian mine barriers; increasing the effectiveness of counterbattery
combat (targeting Russian artillery, for example); creating and training the necessary reserves; and
building
up electronic warfare capabilities.
He says that Ukraine must
deliver massive strikes “in a single combat formation,” using
decoys and
combat
drones to overload the Russian air defense systems.
“We also
need electronic warfare systems, which are key to winning the drone
warfare,” he notes,
adding
that the Russians have about 60 different systems.
The
sun sets over a destroyed building in Izyum, Ukraine.Bram
Janssen/AP
“This war cannot be won with the weapons of the
past generation and outdated
methods,” Zaluzhny told the Economist. “Sooner or later we are going to find that we
simply
don’t have enough people to fight.”
“We have limited
capabilities to train reserves on our own territory, since the enemy
has
the ability to launch missile and air strikes on training centers and
training grounds.”
The Kremlin, by contrast, seems grimly
satisfied by the stalemate in the belief that
ultimately
its larger military machine will break Ukrainian morale.
Responding
to Zaluzhny’s comments, spokesman Dmitri Peskov said Thursday that
“Russia consistently continues to conduct the special military operation. All goals
that are set
must be achieved.”
Moscow is also likely relishing shifting
sentiment in the US, in both Congress and
among the
public.
According to a new Gallup poll, 41 percent of
Americans say the US is doing too
much to help Ukraine, up from 29% just five months ago. That figure rises to 55%
among
Republicans, according to the poll, as the 2024 election looms.
The
paralysis on Capitol Hill has also interrupted the flow of military
aid to Ukraine.
The Biden administration’s efforts to link a year’s worth of aid ($24 billion) to other
funding priorities, such as aid to Israel, have run into strong headwinds
among Republicans in
Congress.
Several
Republican senators have now said that Zaluzhny’s remarks call into
question Ukraine’s
strategy in the war. One who has opposed further aid to Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance, said
Thursday: “This
was always going to end with Russia controlling
some Ukrainian
territory and a negotiated settlement.”
Speaking of his
latest visit to Washington in September, Zelensky tells TIME that
some members
of Congress “asked me straight up: ‘If we don’t give you the aid, what happens?’ What happens is
we will
lose.”
Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have
consistently warned that the volume and type of aid
coming from Western allies – as well as what they see as damaging delays in its arrival – has enabled
Ukraine to stay
in the fight but not to prevail.
Shuster quotes an aide to the
Ukrainian president as saying Zelensky feels “betrayed by his
Western
allies. They
have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to
survive it.”
Only now are US-made ATACMs (a longer-range
tactical missile) being brought to bear against
targets far
behind the front lines. F-16 fighter jets will not be deployed until
next spring at the earliest.
To many Ukrainian officials, this
restricted pipeline has allowed Russia to stabilize a situation
which
a year ago threatened to unravel, in the aftermath of the sudden Ukrainian advance through Kharkiv
and the Russian withdrawal from much of Kherson.
If the
Russians have an Achilles heel, Zaluzhny believes, it is Crimea. That
is partly because it is the
jewel in President Vladimir Putin’s crown, and partly because the peninsula is an important channel
for resupplying Russian troops as well as the home of
its
Black Sea fleet.
Over the past few months, the Ukrainian
military has stepped up missile, drone and sabotage attacks
against Russia’s defense infrastructure in Crimea, as well as Putin’s prized bridge to Russia.
Zaluzhny says that for the first time an ATACM was used
against
a target in Crimea this week. But its land forces remain many miles
from the peninsula.
For now, Zaluzhny’s greatest fear is
prolonged trench warfare against an enemy with three times
the number of
men under arms.
“The biggest risk of an attritional trench
war is that it can drag on for years and wear down the
Ukrainian
state,” he says.
Zaluzhny describes Russia as “a feudal
state where the cheapest resource is human life. And for
us… the most expensive thing we have is our people.”
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