Servicemen of the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare a Shark drone for launching, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, October 30, 2023.
In an article for The Economist, General Valery Zaluzhnyi said his army needed key new military capabilities and technology, most importantly air power, to break out of the new phase of the war, now in its 21st month.
But Ukraine's armed forces need key military capabilities and technologies to break out of this kind of war.
The most important one is air power," he wrote.
He singled out Russia's air power advantage as a factor that had made advancing harder and called for Kyiv to conduct massive drone strikes to overload Russia's air defences.
Persons:
Alina Smutko, General Valery Zaluzhnyi, Tom Balmforth, Chris Reese, Jonathan Oatis
Organizations:
Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade, Armed Forces, REUTERS, Thomson
Locations:
Ukraine, Kharkiv region, Russia, Moscow, Ukrainian, Kyiv