Petraeus Praises Ukraine Innovation: ‘Tomorrow’s Technology for Today’s Wars’

SUBSCRIBER + INTERVIEW – We say this often, but it really is a pivotal moment in Russia’s war against Ukraine. While Russian troops make small gains — at enormous cost — in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian troops are holding hundreds of square miles of Russian territory, following their bold incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Next week Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be in the U.S., where he says he will deliver a peace plan to President Joe Biden (and — if the Republican Party nominee wishes to see it — to Donald Trump as well). All the while, Zelensky is pleading with Biden and other world leaders to drop restrictions on the use of western long-range missiles for deep strikes on Russian territory, not least because Russia is mounting a major effort to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure as another winter of war approaches.

With so much in play, The Cipher Brief caught up with General David Petraeus (Ret.) on the sidelines of the 20^th Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference in Kyiv, for an upcoming edition of The Cipher Brief’s new weekly talk show, The World Deciphered (airing this Sunday, October 22).