zeluzhny and what to expect from the new commander-in-chief oleksandr syrskyi? we talk about this in the first part of svoboda live. do you understand the reasons for such personnel rotation in the military leadership during the war? write in the comments and like this broadcast, this way you will support our work. so, volodymyr zelenskyi in his address to the citizens said that 2024 should be a decisive year in the war with russia, and ukraine needs to achieve its goals. rebooting generality. for this, according to the president, at all levels the leadership of the armed forces should be combat commanders who, as zelenskyi said, know and feel the front. zelenskyi introduced oleksandr syrskyi as such a commander. as the western media write, commenting on the reshuffle in the military command of ukraine, syrskyi, unlike zaluzhnyi, is not very popular among military personnel. so politicians and the washington post claim that the military believes. the commander-in-chief,

a soviet-style commander, under whose leadership the armed forces suffered heavy losses during the defense bakhmut, because of which the soldiers gave sirsky the nicknames butcher and general 200, politico writes. this, by the way, is confirmed by our ukrainian colleagues, military correspondents. out of sight, they say, the military really call syrsky the butcher, general 200 or even general death. syrsky partially answered all these objections in his first statement as head of the committee, which he made today. the life and health of servicemen have always been and are the main value of the ukrainian army, therefore maintaining a balance between the performance of combat tasks and the restoration of part of the divisions with the intensification of training and training of personnel remains more relevant than ever. so far, politicians from the washington post emphasize the fact that the decision to change the military leadership was made just when russia regained the initiative on the battlefield, and the armed forces faced...

an acute shortage of ammunition and personnel . according to politicians, personnel rotations in the leadership of the armed forces may increase the skepticism of american congressmen regarding the provision of new military aid to ukraine. in your own the new york times reminds us that it was syrsky's willingness to wage a war of attrition in the battle for bahmud that was criticized by the us. in a conversation with the financial times, some western officials and analysts expressed the opinion that sirsky's appointment could negatively affect the course of the war, in particular. due to the proximity of the commander to the president. interlocutors of the publication also doubt the ability of the new head of the committee to resist the interference of the country's political leadership in military matters. the times also writes about it. according to the newspaper ukrainian servicemen believe that syrskyi will simply follow zelenskyi's instructions and will not defend military interests. the publication reminds that the conflict between zelenskyi and zaluzhnyi due to different views on the course of the war took place, if the former complied, complied. an optimistic

approach, the second called the situation at the front "patova". zaluzhny was skeptical of some of the president's orders and statements, as he considered them unrealistic, writes the times. well , returning to oleksandr syrsky, what do we know about the new commander-in-chief ukrainian army. listen. oleksandr syrskyi, 58, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine. he was born in russia, in the village of novinka, volodymyr region, 130 km from moscow. i will get an education. at the moscow higher military command school, he served in the then still ukrainian soviet socialist republic. after the declaration of ukraine's independence, he stayed and began serving in the national guard, and later in the armed forces of ukraine. after that, syrsky also received a ukrainian education, in particular, he graduated from the academy of the armed forces of ukraine and the national university of defense. in the winter of 2015, he was one of the main commanders of the ato during the battles for debaltseve. he managed to withdraw...

ukrainian groups from the city, which was almost surrounded by the russian military. for this operation , syrskyi was awarded the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi. however, some ukrainian military personnel on social networks blame syrsky for the so-called debaltsiv cauldron, where many ukrainian soldiers died. since 2016, syrskyi headed the joint operational headquarters, which coordinated the actions of the ukrainian military in donbas, and in 2019 he began to lead the ground forces of ukraine. at the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine , oleksandr syrskyi was responsible for the defense of kyiv, for which he was awarded the title of hero of ukraine. this is how the journalists of the washington post described the preparation of the syrian defense of the capital. syrsky divided the city and the surrounding districts into sectors and appointed generals from military training centers to manage each district, creating a clear chain of subordination to which all ukrainian military units and services would obey without.

officers in the field were allowed to make tactical decisions immediately without the need to consult with headquarters. in the fall of the 22nd, sirskyi was one of the commanders of the counteroffensive in... kharkiv region, six months later the ministry of defense of ukraine named his name among the creators of the victories of the armed forces of ukraine, i quote: atlanteans, who hold the operation on their shoulders. in addition, syrsky commanded the military in the bakhmut direction. the bbc writes that last year oleksandr syrsky and valery zaluzhny had different views on what exactly to do in the battle for bakhmut. in particular, it was about whether it was worth leaving the city earlier, and then, whether it was worth advancing on the city? in parallel with the counteroffensive in the south. the new york times writes that in the summer of the 23rd, american strategists emphasized focusing on the counteroffensive only in the south. at that time , the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces, valery zaluzhnyi , agreed with them, but the ukrainian army continued offensive battles for bakhmut, for

which syrsky advocated. later, in an interview with the bbc , sirsky called the offensive battle under by bakhmut - i quote: a matter of principle and a matter of honor. due to this approach to the management of the army, a number of officers with... with whom bbc journalists spoke anonymously, spoke negatively about syrskyi. they emphasized that he was not too careful about saving the lives of soldiers. and the political publication, referring to anonymous sources in the ukrainian army, states that among the ukrainian military, syrsky was nicknamed, i quote: butcher and general 200. the washington post writes that part of the ukrainian military considers syrsky commander of the soviet model. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. yuriy fedorenko, commander of the akhiles attack unmanned aircraft complex company of the 92nd separate mechanized brigade named after kosh ataman ivan sirk, has already joined our broadcast. good evening. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. tell me, please, and how did you, the military, your

comrades, perceive the news about the replacement of the head? i would like to make certain clarifications. first, i am currently in the position of commander of the battalion of the 92nd unmanned attack complex. last year it was accepted the decision of the command of the armed forces of ukraine in connection with the effective performance of combat tasks to increase the company to a battalion, at the moment the order was not implemented, therefore we are actively recruiting and looking for motivated people. well, then i welcome you, then? this, you know, i thank you for the congratulations, but these are new difficult challenges, but it is inspiring that we are four times larger and four times stronger we will be able to beat the enemy in the field. thank you very much. regarding personnel rotations and changes that have taken place, my position remains unchanged, i have extremely high respect for valery fyodorovych zaluzhny, he is really the newest general who made his period

of time impossible for ukraine to win, but at the same time, one must understand that the team always provides the result. accordingly, a powerful team worked with valeryemovich as in the general staff. as well as by directions. mr. syrskyi is one of the key generals who was responsible for a number of operations that ended successfully enough for the general approach of victory and the progress of hostilities on the battlefield, and he proved himself for a period of military service and full-scale war, in particular, as a general who is able to make decisions, take responsibility and plan an operation in a sufficiently measured and balanced manner. the solution to why it happened that personnel changes took place now. rotation, i believe that anyone who is not attached to the rank of the supreme commander cannot fully analyze why, because we are not the bearers of all the information of what is happening on the battlefield and what is happening in general in country, with our international partners, this

understands only the rate of the supreme commander-in-chief. i am sure that valery fyodorovych zaluzhny will immediately find his important place in order to continue bringing ukraine's victory closer to that place. which will be determined for him and on which he will agree to perform his official tasks, as for the new commander-in-chief mr. syrskyi, i wish success, effort, victory and support of my colleagues in arms. i am sure that at the moment we will be able to provide, the strength of the defense, i mean, constant dynamics in order not to lose the tactical initiative on the battlefield, in general, in order to carry out the assigned tasks that are. our main task is to do. everything possible and impossible so that the enemy does not advance into the depths of our battle formations, that is, does not occupy additional territory, and also do everything possible so that we succeed in future counteroffensive operations. did i

understand you correctly, that the reason, the reason remains unclear until the end of replacement, replacement with a head. i i will tell you more, that it remains completely incomprehensible. this is a normal phenomenon, if all the reasons are consequential, i explain, we, as citizens of ukraine, strive to know fully everything related to the war, what is the number of casualties, what is... what is the provision, what is happening on the battlefield, but friends, what everyone knows, the enemy also knows, and the enemy often enough uses certain weak points that are common knowledge in order to develop his success and strike at them, so the reasons why the replacement took place and there is a certain lack of clarity are an absolutely normal phenomenon, because the decision, i say once again, is made by those people, in those offices, in which they have full access to all the information, our internal ones. of the state, which takes place on the battlefield and in foreign economic and external

relations, which correspond, including the task of general military assistance. therefore, there is no need to look here, in my opinion, see what is very important, there is no need to look for any treason, it is necessary for everyone in his place, military, including those who are now, to do everything that depends on him, round-the-clock and every day persistently, in order to ensure stable dynamics and the execution of combat tasks on the battlefield. volodymyr zelenskyi. volodymyr zelenskyi, when he represented syrskyi in office, he spoke about the need to reboot the generalship and that the combat teams, they should feel and know and feel the same as they feel at the front. in view of this, i will still ask you what reputation general syrsky has among the military, whether he meets the characteristics from your point of view that the president expressed, knows, feels the needs front, and why is he informally called a butcher? why is he called a mestizo, i answer that, i can't give an answer, objectively, but have you ever heard your

brothers call him a butcher, no, i've never heard such a thing, but more than that, i'll tell you, that i saw general syrsky several times directly in the combat zone and before the kharkiv counteroffensive operation, in which my unit took a direct part both during planning and during the transfer of military readiness checks combinations before hitting. of my actions even before the start of the counteroffensive operation, and in addition, we see it often enough, we saw it from before, because now the position is different, i think that it will be much better when planning various kinds of operations, even at the brigade level, so i have to tell you that effective officers, those who work, you can always accuse that there is careless treatment of personnel or some other story, but i think it is more related to information propaganda, which is aimed at discrediting our generalship, and not

an objective assessment of reality, this is my opinion, and i believe that - the enemy, including, is doing everything possible to take advantage of the situation, so there was a change, now their public, my colleagues are telling me what is happening in them among those who are analyzing, and there, well, everything, now they will throw bodies and everything related to that. friends, if it were just like that, we would have a different situation on the battlefield, we would have no one, nothing to fight with. at the present moment, as you know, the defense forces are securely holding the majority directions, and the enemy, despite the fact that it prevails in numbers, forces and means, there are no significant tactical successes, this should also be realized, and in relation to the generals, in the russian federation there is systematic propaganda about the fact that the generalship is somehow not of such quality, and this is also picked up by social networks and our information. management of the agency, i will not name names now, it would be incorrect, but for example, one of the generals

who is responsible for the direction of uavs, he was directly at the control point , the unit that i have to lead, and has a very deep understanding of the situation in general , that is, a person at the level of a general, she understands clearly and perfectly how the means work , what are the challenges, what are the inaccuracies, what are the tactics of application, which there are problems with ammunition, how should unification be done, i... i will say frankly that after this communication there was a positive increase in motivation for me, why? because i understand that people with high epaulettes, who make decisions and are generally responsible for the concept, as they will be to develop from the army, are not just generals who formally practice their work, but are people who are clearly aware of what is happening on the battlefield, what are the needs of the defense forces, and what is faced by the ordinary soldier who began to defend? home. thank you for joining and commenting on this important topic. yuriy fedorenko, commander of the

achilles unmanned aerial systems battalion. 92 separate mechanized brigade named after kosh ataman ivan sirk. we talked about personnel rotations in the armed forces of ukraine. well, a the dismissal of zaluzhnyi and appointment to the position of head of the syrian committee is a top topic in the ukrainian segment of social networks, including how do other military personnel comment on this personnel rotation. we collected their social media posts. listen. see you in the ranks, my civilians, wait for the invitation, remember this moment, life now was a paradise, and once again, who said that valery zaluzhnyi was guilty of great losses, ok, dear. give us more of your mother's cherries and buns, we have an avdiiv cauldron on the way, remember, debaltsivsk, like you guess who was in charge then? and a bunch more people are needed, because the cauldron will not be so tasty , the truth is, it will not be so tragic, and not one, come on, it was an honor to serve under the leadership of general zaluzhnyi, i am ashamed to continue my service, supreme, in such cases, sergeant zsu, the report

is over. in recent weeks we are all eyes. a miracle, but a miracle, unfortunately, did not happen. for all two years of a full-scale war, the russians were unable to undermine the moral and psychological state of the armed forces of ukraine and ukrainians in general as much as today's news about the resignation of general valery zuluzhny from the position of commander-in-chief of the armed forces. friends, we are slightly overestimating the role of one particular person: it is not generals who win wars, what will change for me specifically from the fact that now there will be another commander-in-chief, absolutely nothing. i see. there will be an enemy, i know what to do with him, we should not romanticize the war, its protagonists either, let's use common sense and work for victory. i wonder if someone thought about the morale of the military, for whom the commander-in-chief of the armed forces was a real leader whom they trusted. honor and thanks, sir general. hands down, this is the beginning of the end.

and many more in this spirit can be found in social networks, which is remarkable, they write it. it is important for people who do not fight directly, but undoubtedly cheer for the fate of ukraine. society, if the replacement of one person, without any doubt, a legendary and worthy personality, causes you to be ready to capitulate, or to expect an inevitable end, then the end will still be bad. valentin badrak, director of the army research center of disarmament conversion, has already joined our broadcast. good evening. good evening, thank you for the invitation. office. in fact, volodymyr zelenskyi comments very few words on the changes in the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine, and the president himself explains the resignation of zaluzhnyi quite vaguely, saying that the ukrainian army needs urgent changes, but the reason is not fully understood, well, she still did not fully understand, maybe it’s just me, i apologize , how do you understand the reasons for the dismissal of an employee? well, first of all, this

reason is psychological, the psychological reason of our... commander-in-chief, that's how i saw it, because, well, hard-working, as i observed, he always behaved like that, and he made decisions that he actually, well, considered the most important, yes, and when in, for example, well, there are such examples when in... actually the office the president before the great invasion did not prepare for war, so to speak , calmed everyone down, it is known that general zaluzhnyi prepared the army for war without advertising, this is known, and this is such a fact, there were such things when zaluzhnyi made

decisions, and the supreme commander of them ... canceled, well, there was at least one such thing, there were the situation when the ambassador of ukraine to the united states, oksana markarova, according to the editorial staff of the weekly mirror and according to the information of the insider sources of the weekly mirror, and i trust the weekly mirror, because i worked with this team for two decades, oksana markarova made efforts so that the photo of zaluzhny was not appeared on the cover of the times, and so on, there were a lot of them, especially recently, when the supreme commander equalized the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, put him on the same level as a people's deputy, who, in general, in my opinion

point of view poses a threat to national security, when it was when, it was when it was discussed, this thesis of maryana valera, and... or refuted, you say that she made efforts so that zaluzhnyi did not appear on the cover of the times, well, the publication, this publication is independent, it is unlikely that the ukrainian ambassador could influence journalists, maybe, maybe i said it a little incorrectly, but she received such an instruction, it may not be about her actions, but about the instruction. and this is what the mirror of the week says, yes, that is, well, i say it again, it's an insider information, i don't want it here, but there are things that are open, we saw statements about maryana. and about valera, yes, well, in quotation marks, that’s how we saw , well, strange things in general, when the deputy head of the president’s office criticizes the commander-in-chief,

a person who has nothing to do with the army at all, you are probably talking about ihor zhovka now, when he criticized the column zaluzhny will save money, and if, if, summing up what you said, you can now outline the reason why, from your point of view , zaluzhny was fired, then look, i do not put under doubt the professional qualities and abilities of colonel-general syrskyi, absolutely, i think that he will also try very hard, and the young team that he presented, and his experience and the battle for kyiv and the contour offensive in the kharkiv region, i believe that this one of the most experienced generals and all that, that is, i have no doubt, but there is one, not even one, but several nuances. the first nuance, sirsky is more convenient for the supreme commander, yes, convenient, because he is closer, and obviously they are on the same

wavelength, yes, they can talk and can lead, on the one hand, it’s kind of cool, yes, but imagine if, for example, president biden biden emotionally fired general milli, yes, well, that’s... this is impossible, an unacceptable situation, that is, in such a way, when for example, khorenko is dismissed, yes , well, i mean the commander of the special operations forces, he was also criticized by experts there, i heard that there was a lot of criticism there, but eh, this is a devaluation of the value of the service in general, because if a person cannot to plan a military career, how she will join the army and work, military command, military command , must be almost inviolable, and only when there is some threat to national security, then, then, you can make some such changes,

that is , there was actually no motivation, motives for changing the service, except for these psychological mismatches in communication, now , well, i just wanted to tell you. what are the risks, the main risk, in my opinion, is that, now knowing, we, we all understand that general syrsky will be more loyal to the supreme commander, and we can foresee that politics will interfere more in military affairs, and we know the negative consequences of maryana bezugla going to the front there, right? and we know that, well , insider information, that even before that there were situations when

some, well, some orders were given through the head of the lieutenant, so it seems that communication will be improved, yes it will be between the commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief, it will really be improved, but this one the risk associated with loyalty to the field. and politicians can with their such approaches set tasks, they can also set unattainable tasks. i believe that zaluzhny saved the ukrainian army when we were attacked by the biden administration, biden made a strategic mistake, i will stand by this, in the 23rd year, why is ukraine pushed back two years at all, we are now... at the level of the end of the 22nd year, unfortunately, the west rejected us, because the west did not arm ukraine, did not create the conditions for

an offensive, and through the ukrainian military and political leadership, that is, through the ukrainian political elite, stimulated that offensive uncharacteristic of the ukrainian army, the ukrainian army cannot go on a frontal offensive, frontal assaults with such an army as the russian one, what... he bribed the entire society and the military, what he made bets on technology, let's read him as an economist, his materials, and for cnn what he wrote, he and there and there, the main word was, technology, technology and none the less, and none the less, and i just want to summarize, and none the less, as i understand it, political management, in particular volodymyr zelenskyi believed that valery fedorovych did not have a vision of strategy and so. war, and i want to add what you actually said, the western media also wrote about it massively, about the risks, that there is a risk that oleksandr syrsky, despite the fact that he is an experienced

general. may be more dependent on the political leadership, and, as the economist points out, he needs to learn to tell the truth to power, well, i guess he means the truth, which may not be very, not very, he will not, he will not tell the whole truth to power, and the situation is very similar to relationships minister of defense kuzmuk, well , then there were no central committees, and there was only the minister of defense and president kuchma, when after... two levels, so to speak, kuchma appointed kuzmuk as minister, and he was extremely grateful and extremely loyal to him, and therefore the real situation in the army , well, in fact, he didn’t report to him, in fact, maybe, we just don’t have much time, the last question, i understood your analogies, and what do you think, where can the hard-working man find use now, because so far he limited himself to this with a restrained statement that,

with this very question, you approached the main thing... who are you looking at if zaluzhnyi agrees to go as an ambassador, conditionally speaking, it seems that he did not agree, which means that he does not want to multiply himself by zero, yes, as a person who has already entered ukrainian society and politics, i think that in this way the supreme commander practically pushed the hard worker into politics, and he will have no choice but to simply go into politics and be a political competitor of zelenskyi, well, yes , probably it is will happen, let's see, of course, maybe somehow, of course, something high military position, no, he does not depend in the army, he will not remain in the leadership, i do not know how it will look, yes, because, well, demotion of a person in a position, yes, in the army, this must be explained somehow.

and for what is a man humiliated, a man who saved the army which, on which they want to hang the shortcomings of this offensive, the army which, not having a fleet, wrested control over the western part of the black sea, gave nightmares to russia on the crimean peninsula, and created the conditions by defeating daggers, when russia now cannot even nuclear. to use weapons, because there is a danger that nuclear carriers will be destroyed on the territory of russia, and strictly speaking, well, that is , things have been achieved, unattainable, yes, in general , fantastic things have been done in the 23rd year and done, well, one way or another, of course, what is unworthy, it is a team , there is a team, an army, soldiers, but under the guidance of a worthy,

not least... trusting him as a leader, and now the situation, well, we, why was the title of hero of ukraine awarded, yes, we were just showing this video today, yes, because it so to speak, well, psychological caressing is like that, psychological stroking, yes, psychologists say so, yes, when everything has not worked out, yes, and it is necessary to fix it somehow, and why now, because... if we read what happened in social networks at night today, yes, society simply exploded, and of course zelensky, as a person who understands that these are not toys when society reacts to decisions in such a way, that is why he found such a move, yes, thank you very much, thank you very much for a comment, in particular a psychological one, i would even say a comment, valentyn badrak, director

of the army, conversion and disarmament research center was there. on radio liberty, we talked about the reasons for valery zaluzhny's resignation, radio liberty also asked the people of kyiv how they felt about zaluzhny's resignation and the appointment of general oleksandr syrskyi to the position of commander-in-chief, here we will show their answers. how did you feel about replacing general zaluzhnyi with general syrskyi? negative, of course. zaluzhnye enjoys the well-deserved respect of ukrainian society. horses are not exchanged at the crossing. i don't think so they replaced the veteran, then it will be better, no, well, i think that you need to observe a little, because that is probably how you draw conclusions, i am not a professional military man, if you do not know, you should not make theories, because it is always easy to fuel them without knowing the facts, that what is heard from the guys that it could be me...