Zaluzhnyi speaks in London about war in Ukraine and Third World War

Zaluzhnyi published the text of the speech on Telegram.

The threat of the Third World War

Free and democratic nations and their governments need to wake up and think about how to protect their citizens and their countries. We are ready to share all our knowledge, experience and thoughts with those who have not left Ukraine in difficult times and who seek peace and tranquility for their peoples.

According to the former commander-in-chief, the degree to which humanity will be ready to accept the next world war depends to a certain extent on the professional military.

Lessons of full-scale war

Wars must be avoided! But if it does come, you need to be prepared for it. It is the readiness for war that should be considered as a huge set of measures that covers not only purely military aspects, but also all spheres of state activity.

The readiness of society should be based on "honest and transparent" communication between the authorities and the people.

Zaluzhnyi believes that in order to survive a war, society must agree to temporarily give up a range of freedoms: " the readiness for war will be determined not only by the readiness of the army to repel aggression, but also by the readiness of society to confront the enemy."

In addition, in his opinion, war cannot be considered as part of the internal political process, and its use for one's own purposes and for one's own interests is a crime, the consequence of which is huge sacrifices.

"War is the maximum concentration of forces for survival. And only for this! believes Zaluzhnyi.

On the way to victory

The war with Russia that began in 2014 is "completely different" from the full-scale invasion that began on February 24, 2022. Basing on the concepts of 2014 quickly exhausted Ukrainian forces in May 2022.

The concept of a new war strategy must include the concept of technologies "that will change the situation on the battlefield in the conditions of the enemy's existing advantages in military potential and resources." Technologies, according to Zaluzhnyi, will be decisive in the war with Russia and will become the basis of global security in the future.

As of today, neither Ukraine nor Russia will be able to independently master the technologies in the near future.

On technologies in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is not yet a war of the future - it is only a "war of transitional period". However, it is the Ukrainians, according to Zaluzhnyi, who are shaping new models of the war of the future.

"The cchanges, which were invented on the battlefields of the Russian-Ukrainian war, will determine the outlines of wars and the art of war in the 21st century," the former commander-in-chief believes.

Technologies are being created in Ukraine, but they cannot scale them. At the same time, the partners have resources, but there are no opportunities to test these technologies: "Only together we will be able to effectively use the resource, because time no longer works for us."

On May 9, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Zaluzhnyi as Ukraine's extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

According to the head of state, work in the diplomatic direction is the initiative of Zaluzhnyi himself. His candidacy for the position of ambassador of Ukraine to Britain was approved by the president on March 7.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba explained that Zaluzhnyi was chosen for the post of ambassador to Britain, because he has an understanding of the military context.

At the beginning of June, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba stated that the process of preparing Zaluzhnyi to work as an ambassador in Britain is already "at the end of the finish line". On July 4, Zaluzhnyi left for London.