Former army chief Zaluzhnyi confirms Wiesbaden’s secret HQ role
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK and former Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, confirmed the existence of a clandestine headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, established in 2022 to plan operations against Russia with U.S. partners, echoing a New York Times investigation, in a Facebook post on April 8.
“It truly became our secret weapon with partners in planning operations and defining the needs to realize them,” he wrote.
Initially launched in April 2022 as a logistics center for coordinating military aid at the U.S. European Command HQ in Stuttgart, the facility relocated to Wiesbaden, evolving into a nerve center for Ukraine and its allies.
Zaluzhnyi explained that by summer 2022, as allies questioned the relevance of certain weapons and munitions, Ukraine proposed transforming the logistics hub into an operational one.
“We needed a joint HQ with partners to assess arms and equipment needs based on Ukrainian Armed Forces’ operation plans,” he said.
With UK support, the Wiesbaden base began analyzing Ukrainian strategies, conducting war games, and relaying precise requirements to Washington and European capitals—a process Zaluzhnyi hailed as “a brilliant mechanism for partner interaction.”
The revelation aligns with a March 30, 2025, New York Times exposé detailing a discreet Kyiv-Washington alliance forged two months after Russia’s 2022 invasion.
The report described Ukrainian generals traveling to Wiesbaden to cement a partnership with U.S. counterparts in intelligence, strategy, planning, and tech—kept under wraps from all but a tight circle of officials.