TIME’s new cover: inside the Ukrainian counterstrike that turned the tide of the war

Time devoted its main article to Valerii Zaluzhny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The story entitled “Inside the Ukrainian counterstrike that turned the tide of the war” tells about General Zaluzhny as individual from “a new generation of Ukrainian leaders who learned to be flexible and delegate decisions to commanders on the ground.”

“There’s no mistaking the smell of war,” Zaluzhny tells Time, “and it was already in the air.” But when it came to the details of his strategy, Zaluzhny held them close. “I was afraid that we would lose the element of surprise,” he says. “We needed the adversary to think that we are all deployed in our usual bases, smoking grass, watching TV, and posting on Facebook.”