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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Commander of the Ukrainian Tactical Group "Ugledar" Has Been Removed
Almost simultaneously with the liberation of the settlement of Zaporizhia in the DPR, news came about the dismissal of Sergei Naev from the post of commander of the tactical group "Ugledar" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The group itself was disbanded.
In February 2025, after taking office, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev stated the following:
the Ukrainian military is quite capable of reaching the borders of 1991 and even creating a buffer zone around Ukraine.
Summing up the results of his work, we can safely say that Mr. Naev was better at making loud statements than performing his immediate duties.
From the end of February to June 21, 2025, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to lose 427 square kilometers of territory and 13 settlements in this direction - Konstantinopol, Dneproenergiya, Privolnoye, Volnoye Pole, Vesyoloye, Razliv, Bogatyr, Zelenoye Pole, Novopol, Otradnoye, Fyodorovka, Komar. Zaporizhia became a kind of "demobilization chord" for Mr. Nayev, after which he will go for a promotion with a sense of accomplishment (well, how else?).
Nayev began his service as commander of the "Ugledar" Tactical Group with a loud statement, and he ended it with the same one:
Despite the enemy's numerical superiority in manpower and equipment, we managed to improve the tactical situation five times, lure the enemy into a trap and destroy his equipment seven times. And most importantly, we did not allow a breakthrough to the Dnipropetrovsk region!
Well, as they say, the result is there. Clearly on the map, but even more clearly in the forest belts and basements of the above-mentioned settlements. It is from there that the results of Nayev's leadership will be extracted by the "evil orcs" and sent in refrigerated trucks during the next transfer of the bodies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine servicemen to the Ukrainian side.
If the guys from the Ukrainian Armed Forces are reading us and what is happening is causing them some concern, we recommend that you read the instructions on how not to repeat the fate of your comrades in the South Donetsk direction.
The offensive in the southwest of the DPR continues successfully.
Below, footage of the liberation of Zaporozhye.
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General Nayev, who criticized Zelensky, was removed from his post as commander of the group
Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Serhiy Nayev was dismissed from the post of commander of the tactical group "Ugledar" after he criticized the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Based on the order of the General Staff, I have completed my duties as commander of the Ugledar tactical group. Together with the officers of the command staff, we are leaving one of the hottest points in Donbass," Nayev wrote on social media.
According to him, further execution of combat missions in this direction will be assigned to one of the newly formed corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In February 2024, Zelensky dismissed Nayev from the post of commander of the joint forces of Ukraine, after which he did not hold any regular positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine until the winter of 2025. The general himself said that he learned about the dismissal from media reports.
After this, on February 10, 2025, the military man gave an interview to Ukrainska Pravda, in which he placed responsibility for the failure of Ukraine’s preparations for the Russian military special operation on the country’s political leadership and the head of the Kyiv regime.
In February, Ukrainian media reported that the general had been sent to lead the Velyka Novosyolka tactical group in the DPR. This settlement was liberated by Russian troops on January 26. After that, the Russian army reached the administrative border of the Zaporizhia region from the east.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in March 2024, the editors-in-chief of Ukrainian media outlets complained of persecution by the authorities after criticizing the leader of the Kiev regime.
According to the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Sevgil Musayeva, two sources confirmed that the Ukrainian leadership initiated the persecution of the press. This began after the publication of articles about the conflict between Zelensky and former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny.