Ukraine confirms secret meetings with NATO commanders

  The adviser to the Ukrainian president has said that Ukrainian military officials meet frequently with senior NATO commanders and discuss the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine. According to the AP agency, Mykhailo Podoliak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, confirmed a report about Ukrainian General Valery Zalogeny's recent meeting with NATO commanders and acknowledged that Kiev regularly briefs Western and NATO military commanders. -s for the situation on the battlefield. In an interview for a Ukrainian network, Podoliak stated: "The General Staff makes its plans according to what is happening on the front line. Obviously, we always discuss these programs with our partners to enable more weapons to be sent.

The reaction of Zelensky's office to the meetings between Ukrainian military officials and NATO commanders was made after the report of the English newspaper "Guardian" which on Saturday of this week reported that 11 days ago, some senior military of the NATO alliance s went to a secret location on the Polish-Ukrainian border to meet Zalozhen and his entire command team. According to the Guardian, the purpose of the five-hour meeting was "to help renew Ukraine's military strategy, especially after Ukraine's slow-moving counterattacks against Russian positions. Apparently, Ukrainian and NATO officials have had discussions about plans for the winter season. Kiev's counterattacks against Russian positions, which it had advertised for a long time, began in early June, but so far the Ukrainian army has not been able to make a significant breakthrough and this has brought losses large in people and equipment.