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2024-02-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukraine's 'Iron General' army chief is axed and replaced by ground forces commander after Zelensky admitted war had reached 'stalemate'

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top

#1 ^Ukraine's sponsors demand something to show their electorate?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-09 01:12|| 2024-02-09 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 ...reached a stalemate."

Translation: Our arses are systematically being handed to us.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-09 02:39|| 2024-02-09 02:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Syrskyi IS russian. He barely speaks Ukrainian.
Syrsky is hated by the Ukrainian troops, particularly those on the frontlines.
He’s being called a ‘butcher’ and is known in other circles as a meat-grinder who refused to give an inch in Bakhmut while calling for frontal meat-assaults, leading to the extermination of an entire field army group.
The parents and brother of the new commander-in-chief of the US-backed Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, still live in Russia, and his father is a retired colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, and now a pensioner
Why would Zelensky appoint a commander that the entire armed forces allegedly hates?
This fact, is a ‘design feature’ not a bug..
Zaluzhny was extremely popular with the armed forces of Ukraine many where hoping for him to lead an insurrection against the Kiev government .
Zelensky needs a commander-in-chief he can control, someone not universally loved by the troops; someone who cannot use those troops at a time of opportunity to ‘march on Kiev’ and oust Zelensky

Posted by USA media is trash 2024-02-09 04:22|| 2024-02-09 04:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Don't you have any ambitious young colonels?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-09 13:03|| 2024-02-09 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 "Only a Russian Agent would say Ukraine isn't winning."

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-09 13:43|| 2024-02-09 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 All really long posts today are canaries in the coal mine.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-09 13:45|| 2024-02-09 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Zaluzhny out, Oleksandr Syrsky in, to what purpose?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-09 14:37|| 2024-02-09 14:37|| Front Page Top

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