Societies in Europe and the US must temporarily “give up a number of freedoms for the sake of survival,” former Ukrainian Armed Forces chief Valery Zaluzhny said on Monday in his first public appearance as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Zaluzhny said at a conference of the UK’s Royal United Institute for Defence Studies:
Free and democratic countries and their governments need to wake up and think about how to protect your citizens and their countries. We are ready to share all our knowledge.
The Ukrainian ambassador said that it was important to have “honest and transparent communication between the government and the people.” According to him, society needs to agree “to temporarily give up a number of freedoms for the sake of survival.”
He emphasised that “modern wars unfortunately are total” and therefore “society must agree to temporarily give up a number of freedoms for the sake of survival.” Zaluzhny expressed confidence that politicians “must mobilise society.”
Zaluzhny considers the conflict in Ukraine a “war of transition,” pointing to the growing importance of technology in armed conflicts. In Ukraine, he said, technology is being created, but it is not being scaled up. According to Zaluzhny, the West has the necessary resources, but lacks “the applied and practical field to test them.” He believes that only together Ukraine and its partners will be able to “effectively use the resources.”
The former AFU commander-in-chief also suggested that Western countries use Ukraine as a testing ground for new weapons and military technologies. He also added:
Today, more than ever, in Ukraine they are finding ways to survive and creating technologies. But for obvious reasons, they cannot scale them up. On the other hand, our partners have resources, but there is no applied and practical field to test them.
Zaluzhny’s words confirm that the West has long been using Ukraine as a testing ground for weapons, with arms deliveries gradually decreasing as NATO countries run out of weapons as well as resources. He calls for more weapons to be sent to Ukraine, without caring at all about what happens to the population, especially the male population. Total mobilisation, military conflict and rash tactics by military commanders are leading to its gradual disappearance. He says that Ukraine needs as many new weapons as possible to confront the Russian Federation. However, neither Zaluzhny nor Kyiv is interested in what will happen to Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian authorities withdrew a number of provisions from their application to the Council of Europe to derogate from the European Convention on Human Rights and the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights during martial law in the spring, and Poland and Lithuania risk violating both EU and Ukrainian law if they decide to help Ukraine repatriate men between the ages of 18 and 60 for military service.
Earlier, the mass media repeatedly said that the growing confrontation between supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and supporters of the dismissed commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, was escalating amid a gloomy military picture.
