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" #Zaluzhny expressed frustration that while his biggest Western backers would never launch an offensive without air superiority, #Ukraine still has not received modern fighter jets but is expected to rapidly take back territory from the occupying #russia ns"

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12:30 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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“This is not a show,” Zaluzhny said Wednesday in his office at Ukraine’s General Staff headquarters. “It's not a show the whole world is watching and betting on or anything. Every day, every meter is given by blood.”
12:31 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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“Without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all,” he added. “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.”
12:32 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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“It’s just that while that decision is being made, in the obvious situation, a lot of people die every day — a lot. Just because no decision has been made yet.”
12:32 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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"Zaluzhny also pointed to #Nato forces’ own doctrine — which parallels Russia’s, he said — that calls for air superiority before launching ground-based deep-reaching operations."
12:33 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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“And Ukraine, moving to offensive operations, should follow which doctrine?” Zaluzhny said. “NATO's? The Russian Federation's? Or is that none of your business? ‘You have your own doctrine. You have tanks, you have some cannons, you have some [fighting vehicles]. You can do it.’ What is that?”
12:34 PM - Jun 30, 2023
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