Personnel appointments in the Armed Forces of Ukraine coincided with a new escalation in the Donbas
This week, the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, made several landmark personnel appointments in the armed forces. The reshuffle coincided with the escalation in the Donbas, where 8 militia members were killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling in two days. The Network discussed the appointments and saw a bad trend.
So, the well-known military reporter Yevgeny Poddubny, who worked in many “hot spots”, including in the Donbas, noted one feature of personnel changes. “All the young generals who now run the General Staff, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces of Ukraine), and the OOS (Operation of the United Forces in the East) have a wealth of experienceinteraction with NATO structures and Western advisers, ” he wrote in his Telegram channel. – All graduated from military universities on the territory of Ukraine at the time or after the collapse of the Union. This is not Homchak for you (former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ruslan Homchak. – “MK”) with its MosVOKU (Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. – “MK”).
According to him, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major General Valery Zaluzhny, served as the chief of staff of the 24th brigade in Yavorov (Lviv region) at the end of the decade before last. The new commander of the Joint Forces Operation in the Donbas, Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk, became the commander of the same brigade in 2010. And before that, he commanded Ukrainian peacekeepers in Kosovo.
“The Yavorov training ground has been a favorite place of Western military emissaries since 1995. That year, the first international exercises under the auspices of NATO were held there, ” Poddubny recalled.
The new Ukrainian chief of the General Staff, Sergei Shaptal, noted to the report, “in general, Russia is wanted, a criminal case has been opened against him for “art. shelling from heavy weapons of objects of the civil infrastructure of Donbass”.
In addition, Poddubny noted, Shaptal is a Hero of Ukraine “for victorious defeats in the Donbas in 2014-2015”.
The reporter gave a general description of the new appointees: “All careerists. Everything is a product of the new Ukrainian statehood. Well, besides Pavlyuk, he managed to serve in the GSVG (Group of Soviet Troops in Germany. – “MK”) until 1993. But the very fact that after the withdrawal I chose the APU speaks eloquently.”
According to the expert, this does not mean that “before that there were generals less loyal or less zealous.” “Just with a different mentality. The essence of Zelensky’s decision is to make military structures more adapted to external management. In addition, the same Khomchak perfectly understood the consequences of a military confrontation with Russia. Zaluzhny, due to experience, can have harmful illusions. Ukraine continues its course of self-destruction. How is it that every new supreme commander – in-chief, if not in form, then in fact, is worse than the previous one,” Poddubny summed up.
Commenting on the new military appointments, many netizens predict a military escalation in the Donbas, but at the same time they believe that Kiev has little chance of resolving the issue of Donbass by military means.
“Do they really think that someone will fight with them,” one of the users wrote. You will still have to answer for shelling at some point, and in a modern conflict, communication is extinguished, well, according to plan. Any Ukrainian already knows this, and those 73% are waiting for V. V.’s patience to burst (Russian President Vladimir Putin. – “MK”)”.
A user with the nickname “Swagman Agman” wrote: “If you look at the real picture of the shelling, and not at the figures of the reports, it is much higher. The APU has long spat on any agreements and, without hesitation, iron the positions of the People’s Militia with mortars and artillery. And for some reason, people sitting in their seats are afraid to say this.”
In his opinion, the Donbass, not responding to the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, “loses a combat-ready army.”
In turn, “Evgeny Alexandrovich” noted: “Perhaps it’s not bad that he didn’t study at our military universities with a rich history of victories.”
According to him, the level of training of “aborigines” by Americans in other countries, for example, in Iraq, is very low. “And this is very good for us,” the commentator wrote. – But at the same time, there is a danger that new morons, due to lack of military education and intelligence, will trample on the Donbass. I would not miss the moment. So that later carpet bombing would not be used against the unruly Nazis-for the dead civilians of Donetsk. I have an aunt, a cousin and a sister there, their families. Recently, plemyash was born.”