Ukraine general's response to Russian aggression

 Financial Times:

For months from late summer, Ukraine’s forces pursued a meticulous counteroffensive to retake the southern city of Kherson from occupying Russian troops — without having to fight street by street. Commanded by General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the army’s aim was to deploy precision western artillery to cut Russia’s supply lines across the Dnipro River while minimising Ukrainian losses in the face of a larger Russian force. Surgical strikes targeted weapons depots, command posts and two bridges that link to Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, to gradually isolate more than 20,000 Russian troops. The strategy culminated in a defeat for Vladimir Putin as the Russian president’s forces retreated from Kherson city and other parts of the province just over a week ago.

Behind Ukraine’s battlefield success since Russia’s full-blown invasion in February is the guiding hand of the man Ukrainians call the “iron general”. “It’s wonderful when you know the enemy, how he operates and with the help of foreign partners can hit them in their weak spots,” said Vitaly Markiv, a Ukrainian national guard officer who took part in the earlier counteroffensive that liberated swaths of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region. “This is how commander-in-chief Zaluzhnyi operates.”

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It is likely that the Ukraine forces were also getting advice from NATO generals in how to deal with the Russians. 

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