In an interview with The Times, Ukraine's commander-in-chief says it's too soon to claim a turning point in the war. Kyiv's strategy depends on Russia exhausting itself, not on Ukraine breaking through — and he acknowledges current advantages may not last.
Moscow's war aims, Syrskyi says, are unchanged. Advances have slowed, but Russia has recently gained ground inside Kostiantynivka and troops continue to press forward in a thousand-cuts campaign aimed at penetrating Ukrainian defenses as deeply as possible.
Syrskyi says his forces have more FPV kamikaze drones than Russia has troops on its soil (the latter estimated at 721,300) and fly nearly twice as many strike missions per day, but that edge has also paralyzed large offensives for both sides.
"We hope the moment will come when the enemy mobilises all its forces, its resources and actions, after which exhaustion will set in, and a turning point may follow," Syrskyi says. But he also stresses that "Russia has enormous potential, first and foremost in terms of its weapons systems," and says a sudden technological breakthrough could reverse everything.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ukraine-commander-in-chief-interview-gp5x95lt2
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