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| 2022-07-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] Serious contradictions have arisen between the President of Ukraine and the leadership of the General Staff, local media report. There were rumors of a military coup in Kyiv back in March, but then Volodymyr Zelensky kept the situation under control. However, as the UAF retreated, the internal conflict intensified. The popularity of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny skyrocketed after Russia withdrew its troops from the Kyiv region. They saw in him a model of the defender of the motherland and almost the first handsome man of the country. Since spring, analysts have been saying that Zaluzhny could seriously compete with Zelensky in the presidential election. The head of state is jealous of fellow citizens for the commander-in-chief, media say. According to one version, this is why representatives of the Zelensky team since the beginning of June, one after another, talk about the catastrophic losses of the Ukrainian army: 500 killed and wounded per day, now - a thousand. In addition, the president publicly attacked Zaluzhny with criticism of the supply of troops. Allegedly, the journalists told him that the soldiers did not have enough personal protective equipment, and the command did not see any problems. Zaluzhny’s “support group” indicated that the equipment should be handled by the Ministry of Defense, the department of Alexei Reznikov, Zelensky’s ally. In response, there were voices in the President's Office that the general's entourage was manipulating him in their own selfish interests. Differences in strategy The Ukrainian media periodically discuss disagreements between the military and political leadership over the hostilities. For example, the commander-in-chief allegedly demanded the withdrawal of troops from Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, while the head of state, on the contrary, wanted to hold the city to the end. A similar situation was with Azovstal in Mariupol and other important sectors of the front. The Ukrainian military recorded video messages complaining about poor supplies, low training of officers, and obviously impossible orders. Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that there are "many complaints" against the military command. Volunteers accused Arestovich of "political dice", an attempt to shift the responsibility for the defeat to the army. The head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, Taras Chmut, recalled how Zelensky assured three months before the start of the special operation that there would be no hostilities with Russia. Vitaly Shabunin, head of the anti-corruption center, said that if Arestovich was not fired, his criticism of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be regarded as an order from the President's Office. Well-known Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov suggests that Zelensky's team is attacking the General Staff more than once in order to evade responsibility. Everything for the front In early July, the General Staff forbade men fit for service to leave their place of residence. "Your country needs you!" - announced the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, despite the fact that the Ukrainian media regularly report about overcrowded military registration and enlistment offices and an unprecedented rise in patriotism, people responded to the call with a wave of discontent. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Kyiv In the Zaporozhye region, women, protecting their husbands and sons, did not let the military commissars into the village. Volunteers and businessmen who need to constantly move around the country were outraged. They talked about the return of serfdom. Zelensky intervened, promised to look into everything and publicly asked the General Staff not to make such decisions on their own anymore. Arestovich added that "war is too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." A couple of days later, Zaluzhny canceled the order and sent it back for revision. At the same time, he complained that various forces were manipulating his idea to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The security forces are not going to refuse to toughen the mobilization. On the contrary, as Sergei Bratchuk, spokesman for the operational headquarters of the Odessa Regional Military Administration, said, if the fighting drags on, most of the men and a significant part of the women will join the ranks. But the political leadership fears a revolt. Ukrainians who are far from the front line are trying to live as if nothing had happened. The order of the General Staff could change everything. Military dictatorship There are certain difficulties between Zelensky and Zaluzhny, but so far they are far from critical, says political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko. Otherwise, the president would raise the question of the resignation of the commander-in-chief. Nevertheless, it is clear that Zelensky is ready to blame the military for Ukraine's plight. “When the General Staff forbade men to leave their place of residence, he acted in accordance with the law, which says that permission from the military registration and enlistment office is required to move. But people took it sharply, so Zelensky once again demonstrated his love for the people,” the expert notes. "More and more dissatisfied." Is Ukraine facing another coup? The president solves political problems, and for this he sometimes has to act against the wishes of the military command, recalls Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy head of the Institute of CIS Countries. The difference between desires and possibilities is especially intensified when the army is defeated. "In the military environment, they increasingly understand that Zelensky focuses primarily on the United States, and not the interests of the country. However, it is not at all a fact that this discontent can result in something. American advisers tightly control the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they are able to quickly expose any conspiracy," he is sure. In his opinion, the US can make Zaluzhny the favorite only as a last resort. No matter how bad a president Zelensky is, he is a legitimately elected one. The military junta that removed him will be illegitimate. In the end, this will lead to the final collapse of Ukraine. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-07-17 20:54 |
| #1 and almost the first handsome man of the country. Maybe something wrong with Google translate and its understanding of the colloquial nuances. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-07-17 09:51 |