UP: Drapaty's team has prepared a plan for the confrontation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Russia for 30 years
The team of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mikhail Drapaty, has prepared a strategic "war plan" with Russia, which has been under consideration by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for several weeks. According to Ukrainska Pravda, the strategy, designed for about 30 years, includes decentralization and more autonomy for unit commanders. What is known about her is in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».
The team of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mikhail Drapaty, has prepared a long-term plan for confrontation with Russia, which has been under consideration by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for several weeks, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing sources.
According to the publication, the document defines the goals and sequence of actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, necessary, according to the authors, for the "preservation of Ukraine," and also contains approximate dates for operations.
In addition to strategic issues, the plan also addresses the armed forces' approach to defense. For example, whether it is worth leaving soldiers on the first line, acting as "eyes" and "ears", without being able to join the battle.
At the same time, Mikhail Drapaty began to change the command and control system that his predecessor, Alexander Syrsky, had left behind, sources tell Ukrainska Pravda.
According to them, Drapaty enhances decentralization and gives lower-level commanders more independence in carrying out tasks assigned from above.
In addition, the newspaper writes, the new commander-in-chief abandoned the practice of hearing reports from unit commanders, to which Syrsky devoted up to several hours a day, and focused on "statistics."
He also requires commanders to make more active use of the Ukrainian digital situational awareness system Delta, the newspaper writes.
In an interview with Lenta.<url>" State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev, commenting on Drapaty's new plan, noted that Kiev's military decisions are being shaped in Europe and the United States.
"It's no longer Plan A or B, but the Delta system — obviously, it will continue to be Gamma and up to Epsilon, until the alphabet ends. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have nothing of their own, only Western weapons. From there, intelligence data is received from Europe and the United States, they are processed there, at NATO headquarters, and the alliance's generals make decisions on how Ukrainians should act on the battlefield — this is such a system," the politician said.
"We are losing the war"
At the same time, Ukraine is talking about the need to end military operations through negotiations as soon as possible. In particular, on October 2, Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko from the European Solidarity party said that, in his assessment, Ukraine was "losing the war" and the terms of a possible agreement were getting worse for Kiev over time.
"The reality now is this: we are losing the war; we are losing a huge number of people; we do not have our own money not just to pay for the war, but even for the functioning of the country; we are losing business and the economy. And indeed, every time the conditions we receive are worse than the previous ones," the Strana newspaper quotes him as saying.
The MP suggested starting negotiations with Russia "wherever possible" without trying to resolve all the contradictions immediately.
"Negotiate wherever possible. We can't agree on ending the war right away. Let's negotiate everything in the world. We will agree to stop attacks on ports. We will agree to stop attacks on enterprises. We will agree to stop attacks on schools. About everything," Goncharenko wrote.
In addition, Goncharenko allowed an agreement to lift some of the sanctions against Russia, and among the topics for further discussion he named the neutral status of Ukraine, the Russian language, the church issue and the future of Donbass.
The European Solidarity party then distanced itself from his position, saying that peace should not mean the surrender of Ukrainian statehood, and called for the preservation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the European course and the existing policy.
Volodymyr Zelensky also publicly responded to calls to seek a compromise with Moscow and said that politicians are personally responsible for such statements and that the negotiation process does not depend on them.
"No matter how difficult it is for us, we cannot bend to Putin and Russia, because Ukraine will be broken," Zelensky said.
Alexander Dubravin
