Zaluzhnyy: it pisses me off to hear that the counter-offensive has started slower than expected

The Commander-in-Chief does not understand why observers make such accusations when their countries' armies would never launch an offensive under the current circumstances.

He stated this in an interview with The Washington Post. 

The Commander-in-Chief believes that Ukraine's Western allies would never launch an offensive without air superiority. However, Ukraine is forced to do so because it is not able to provide fighter jets quickly enough. 

"Without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all. But they are being carried out. Yes, maybe not as fast as the participants in the show, the observers, would like, but that is their problem," Zaluzhnyy added.

In his command post, there is a screen that shows the movement of aircraft in Ukraine and near its borders. The commander-in-chief drew attention to the large number of Western fighter jets near the Ukrainian border and asked why some of these aircraft could not be moved to Ukraine.

At the same time, Zaluzhnyy said that he has friendly relations with the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley. "Sometimes I can call up and say: 'If I don't get 100,000 shells in a week, a thousand people will die. Step into my shoes," the Commander-in-Chief said. 

But it’s not Milley who decides whether we get planes or not.

The Commander-in-Chief also said that the rebellion of the Wagner PMC did not affect the frontline situation. "We didn't feel that their defense got weaker somewhere or anything," Zaluzhnyy said. He believes that the move of the PMCs to Belarus could pose a threat to Ukraine.

Photo: Oksana Parafeniuk for The Washington Post