To wear down Russia: Zelensky’s strategy - in the latest report from Nikolai Mitrokhin*

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky at negotiations with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

Photo by CHRISTIAN MARQUARDT / NURPHOTO / NURPHOTO VIA AFP

Zelensky’s military planning horizon appears to have expanded to three years—Kyiv now expects to wear down Russia with attacks on export infrastructure and financial strangulation. The front has stabilized, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ drones are reaching Western Siberia, and the EU has allocated a 90 billion loan. The problems are within the country. First of all, this is a crisis of mobilization: 200 thousand military personnel on the run, massive resistance to the TCC and corruption at all levels of the conscription system. In June, Zelensky intends to introduce a reform that should replace street raids with digital control and double wages. Nikolai Mitrokhin* follows the key events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

International situation

On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of Zelensky’s presidency, RBC-Ukraine published a large article, which, according to the editors, was based on an interview with a person from the president’s entourage. It examines in detail his foreign and domestic policies at the current stage.

In particular, the article confirms that the negotiations are effectively frozen: although Kyiv and Moscow have agreed on technical and some political issues, the stumbling block remains the dispute over those parts of the Donetsk region that are still controlled by Ukraine.

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