On February 8, local time, Zelensky ** issued an order for the appointment and dismissal of the army, removing Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and announced that the commander of the Ukrainian army, Shirsky, was the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"Ukraine will be able to succeed in 2024 only with effective changes in the Armed Forces of Ukraine", he noted. Starting today, the new management team takes over the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and I hope that the soldiers in Lobodine or Avdiivka have the same vision for the war as the commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief.
For Zaluzhny's contribution, Zelensky said, "I thank General Zaluzhny for defending the country for two years, I thank us for every victory we have achieved together, and thank all the Ukrainian soldiers who bravely endured this war." Today we frankly discussed the urgent issue of the need for changes in the army, and I propose that General Zaluzhny continue to be a member of the Ukrainian national team. I would appreciate it if he agreed. "Obviously, now Zaluzhny will accept a new ** appointment is still in the middle of the two.
Zelensky's task to Syrsky is:
1. A detailed plan of action for 2024 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should appear on the table, taking into account the real situation and prospects on the battlefield now.
2. Every combat brigade on the front should receive an effective Western **, which should be redistributed equitably in favor of the most needed troops.
3. To solve the logistics problem, there should not be a situation where the generals found out that the drones were trapped in warehouses when the troops in Avdiivka needed them.
4. Every general must go to the front, and if a general does not understand the front, he cannot serve Ukraine.
5. Correct excessive and unreasonable staffing.
6. To create an effective system of army rotation, the experience of the combat brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the State Border Troops of Ukraine can be used as a basis, and rotation is necessary.
7. What we need is a significant improvement in the quality of soldier training, and soldiers must be trained on the front line.
8. The armed forces are creating a new branch of the armed forces - UAV units, and the first commander must be appointed.
Obviously, many of the above tasks, especially the first six, were not fulfilled by Zaluzhny.
This means that the news of the change of commander of the Ukrainian army has finally settled after many days of rendering by Russia and the West.
There is no doubt that Zaluzhny and Zelensky do have a general discord, it is said that the contradiction between the two is that Zaluzhny thinks that he has interfered too much in the military, which has affected the performance of his duties as commander-in-chief, a very noteworthy phenomenon is that Zelensky has gone deep into the front line again and again, but the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army has not, and the newly appointed General Syrsky has been in the front line command, and before the fall of **Mutt, he went deep into **Mutt almost once a week. He believes that long-distance telephone contact cannot replace the information obtained by the officers on the front line to be more reliable. This is similar to Zelensky.
The most important thing is that the two have a fundamental disagreement about the strategy of the Ukrainian army.
After all, if the West fully supports it, Ukraine loses too much land, which is not conducive to international observation and affects the public opinion of the West to aid Ukraine. Zaluzhny, who loves soldiers like a son, hopes to kill and injure a large number of Russian troops, and does not want to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place and the Russian army, and in 2022, he advocated the withdrawal from **Muth, and now he advocates withdrawal from Avdiivka. And last year's ** in Zaporozhye, after the Ukrainian army lost part of the Leopard 2 and Bradley tanks, stopped the offensive and did not achieve the ** goal of taking Tokmak and Melitopol and cutting off the Russian army.
From a military point of view, in the case that the Ukrainian army is in a weak position and the number of equipment, especially ammunition, is far inferior to the Russian army, especially in terms of size, it is impossible to compete with the Russian army in terms of personnel consumption, it can only be so.
I am afraid that it is precisely because of the shortage of troops that on the issue of mobilization, Zaluzhny insisted on recruiting an additional 500,000 people to make up for losses and rotate, while Zelensky ** feared that this measure would cause a huge social **.
Of course, Zaluzhny's biggest thing should not be to give an interview to the Economist and disclose some information that should not be disclosed by the military, even if what he said is correct, there is a suspicion that the military is meddling in politics. Military men can talk about politics, of course, but only after taking off their uniforms, as Eisenhower did.
Of course, it is indeed taboo to change commanders on the spot, but it is equally important to finalize the new management team of the Ukrainian army as soon as possible. As a **, the exercise of authority to remove Zaluzhny is a matter of duty, of course, this may affect morale, but even so, as a ** to make this decision, it must have been carefully considered.
Last year's ** defeat, according to the Western political tradition, Zaluzhny took the initiative to take responsibility and go to his post as a matter of course, but the military commander and cabinet members are still different, but he was not resigned but dismissed, which does show that his pattern is not enough.
Shirsky is a veteran of the Ukrainian army, and his qualifications are far deeper than Zaluzhny's, when Zaluzhny was still a major general, Shirsky was already a general, and because he is Russian, coupled with the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, he refused to be the commander-in-chief to avoid controversy, and Zaluzhny received a comprehensive Western military education, which is also conducive to the NATOIZATION of the Ukrainian army.
At that time, Silsky disregarded his personal status and was a talent for the country, just like Ouyang Xiu was surprised by Su Dongpo's genius, so as to avoid his head. It has always been said that Zaluzhny's replacements were Budanov and Shirsky, but Danov as an intelligence ** is not suitable for this position.
After Zaluzhny became commander-in-chief, he made great contributions to the transformation of the Ukrainian army into NATO. Of course, with Zaluzhny's popularity in Ukraine and even surpassing Zelensky's, coupled with his young age, there is a high probability that he will run for election after the war and even be elected.