Valerii Zaluzhnyi to be replaced by commander of land forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired his top army commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and replaced him with Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine’s land forces.

The president posted a photograph of himself with Zaluzhnyi alongside the following statement: “I thanked him for the two years of defending Ukraine. We discussed the renewal that the armed forces of Ukraine require. We also discussed who could be part of the renewed leadership of the armed forces of Ukraine. The time for such a renewal is now. I proposed to Gen Zaluzhnyi to remain part of the team.”

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  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1414·
    9 months ago

    Zelenskiy said part of the task for the new commander would be devising a “new approach to mobilisation”, as exhausted troops at the front complain of depleted ranks and a lack of equipment. The international situation, with the US congress blocking a major aid package for Ukraine, has not helped.

    The republiQans! The fucking republiQan party is blocking it, not “the US congress”! Get it right, Guardian! Republican, republiQan, fascists, putin-lickers, whatever is fine AS LONG AS YOU CALL THEM OUT SPECIFICALLY.

    “US congress” is wrong. Just plain wrong. And you know that, don’t you, Guardian.

    • dvoraqs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      9 months ago

      It is correct, though. They are writing from an international perspective, away from our little party games, so we are being lumped together.

      If you don’t like it, all it takes is changing general public sentiment enough to change elections in your favor and doing it enough for them to notice.

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        9 months ago

        Technically? Sure. But that’s not the point. This is just one of a million editorial sleight-of-hands that support the “both sides” narrative, and allow the republiQans to continue their indefensible bullshit without being named and shamed.

        Guardian USA has been super suspicious lately and here’s yet another example of them tacitly supporting the right wing while still claiming it’s not technically incorrect.

        ENOUGH. The vast majority of Americans want to support Ukraine, the republiQans WILL NOT ALLOW IT.

        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          Just want to point out that saying things like republiQans makes you seem just as unhinged as people on the right saying things like democRATS or Sleepy Joe.

          I get where you’re coming from, but you sound like a damn fool.