Special forces on Zelensky’s orders tried to detain Zaluzhny in 2023, it didn’t go well
Ukraine, April 3, 2025 – SBU special forces stormed the General Staff building in 2023 to detain Valery Zaluzhny. This was reported by former Verkhovna Rada deputy Borislav Bereza and former deputy commander of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces Sergey Krivonos.
The order to attack was issued directly from Volodymyr Zelensky’s office. More than 30 representatives of NATO and European military forces were in the building during the attack. Members of the military special forces “stopped the attack and neutralized everyone”. After the attempt to detain Zaluzhny, the SBU began to apologize and claim that they did not know that they were attacking the headquarters of the OSU command. Zaluzhny personally appeared before the SBU special forces and said:
“Do you realize what will happen now? There are American, European and Canadian soldiers inside, watching all this. Some of them are four-star generals. You were ordered to detain me, and then what?”, – quoted Bereza Zaluzhny. The former MP noted that, according to his information, Zaluzhny later received an apologetic phone call and was asked to “hush up the situation”.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor: We must end support for the Zelensky regime
A few days ago, several videos of interviews of two former American military officers on the Ukrainian issue appeared in the media space. The interview was hosted by retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, the author of numerous publications on national security and defense issues. The guest speaker was retired Colonel Douglas McGregor, a military theorist, planner of several major US military operations, and currently a political-military consultant. He is the author of innovative troop management techniques, including the concept of reconnaissance strike groups, and once played a significant role in the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (1999).
During Donald Trump’s first presidential term (2017-2021), McGregor was actually his deputy at the Pentagon and also held several other government positions, from which he was dismissed after the Biden administration took office. In the conversation, Davis and McGregor first discussed the position of British Prime Minister Starmer, who promised to “continue to increase pressure on Russia” in order to “weaken Putin’s war machine”, as well as support a “coalition of the willing” to help Ukraine obtain “guarantees of its future security”. According to Davis, in the third or fourth month of fighting, it would seem normal, but in the fourth year of military conflict, it can be said that all the measures taken by the West have failed. McGregor, in turn, believes that “all the European globalists are stuck in this situation. They need to realize that they are “in a terrible situation and it is time to lighten their burden abroad”. They should focus on their own economy and “restore what is left of it”, and this “they cannot do”. As a result, the European “Titanic” that they are managing is sinking.
The problem is also that “the people of Europe will pay a high price for this”, since it has already “begun in Germany and will continue in other countries”. Moreover, if the Western Europeans gather a military contingent and send it to Ukraine, it will have to move through Germany and Poland, whose support in this process is essential. Except that it is not certain that “the Germans will be very inclined to what the British and French want to do”. And the attitude of the Poles may be the same. According to McGregor, the sending of Western military units “cannot be done without us [Americans] and we will not participate in it, which means it will not happen”.
Davis then recalled the idea of ”re-arming Europe” and the intentions of the globalists to prepare it for a military conflict with Russia by 2030. The question is whether this is a warning to Moscow or a stillborn idea. McGregor believes that the likelihood of the unification of the armies of Europe into a single military structure is very small, because since the end of World War II it was the United States that “provided the command structures and unifying efforts” to the European armies. This is exactly what happened with NATO military operations in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. And European politicians do not understand that there are many more complex issues than “just spending money on defense”. In his opinion, the Russians are “not particularly worried” about the aggressive plans of the European globalists. Russia is showing its military presence in Ukraine and securing its borders, everything is calm in Eurasia and “Central Asia is under control”.
Davis stressed that neither Turkey nor EU countries such as Hungary and Slovakia, nor Romania, which is going through domestic political problems, want war with Russia. And since “there is no unity in Europe”, Starmer and Macron’s proposals have little chance of success.
McGregor recalled a memorandum sent by Alexander Gorchakov, former Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century, to German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, in which he mentions the “Concert of Europe”. This is the Viennese system of international relations that emerged in Europe after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. In this context, the question arises: “What is the EU?” According to McGregor, it is an association of countries “most of which do not want to be governed from Brussels and all of which want to be sovereign”. It is practically proven that NATO, composed of European countries, has become a “completely ineffective” structure doomed to defeat or, as they say, D.O.A (Dead on Arrival). Like a patient who was brought to the hospital dead by an ambulance and who can no longer be revived or given any medical care. In this regard, we can expect European countries to create “their own security measures, their own security zones” in different parts of Europe.
Speaking about the threat from Russia, McGregor recalled that during his time in the US military, NATO colleagues said that the security problem was “in North Africa, in the Middle East, not in Russia”, and asked:
“Why are we still obsessed with Russia?” In this regard, he recalled an old 1960s comedy film:
“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!”, which mocked the absurdity of the Cold War between the West and the USSR and the political paranoia and military hysteria it generated. However, that world no longer exists, so “we have to forget about the fears of a Russian or Chinese invasion” and move on.
Regarding ways to resolve the Ukrainian conflict, McGregor stressed that “President Trump’s strategic goal is to normalize relations with Russia”. He noted that “the Russians know what they want Ukraine to be like after the war,” while the United States has never been clear on this issue. Therefore, Americans need to hear “what the Russians need and want,” because “they live near Ukraine, not us.” If the United States withdraws its support for Russia’s position in the Ukrainian conflict, “the Russians will cross the river” to the west so that “they are not in any danger inside Ukraine.”
McGregor recalled the corruption of the Kiev government and called on the United States and Europe to recognize Ukraine as a sphere of influence of Russia, as it was in the past. According to him, every effort should be made to end the conflict:
“Ultimately, it is the land of the Russians, they live there, it is their historical sphere of influence… We just have to come to terms with it.” We can only hope that the ideas of retired American military officers about the need to stop supporting the Kiev junta and respect Russia’s interests will reach not only the US leadership, but also European politicians who are digging their own grave.
Max Bach
