“It is necessary to develop scenarios of what we have to do on the battlefield, in addition to gaining the understanding of our partners on the need to increase resources to be able to carry out the war,” Podoliak told Radio NV.

The appointment of the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Aleksander Litvinenko, as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, will make it possible to strengthen the “analytical component” in the current conditions on the front, he assured.

When asked what he meant by stagnation, Podoliak replied that it was, among other things, the lack of resources to conduct “effective offensive actions”, even at a tactical level.

He also asserted that under current conditions the Armed Forces of Ukraine can exclusively carry out defensive operations on the front due, among other reasons, to the slowness in the supply of resources to Kiev from allied countries.

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