{"id":209270,"date":"2024-02-06T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=209270"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:10:11","slug":"kiev-clusterck-the-nakedly-juvenile-zelensky-to-fire-entire-senior-military-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=209270","title":{"rendered":"

KIEV CLUSTER*CK: The Nakedly Juvenile Zelensky To Fire Entire Senior Military Staff………<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

…with no viable and qualified replacements.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Zelensky to fire his top general\u2019s deputies \u2013 MP<\/h1>\n

The Commander-in-Chief of Kiev\u2019s Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny will reportedly also be replaced sometime this week<\/h3>\n

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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky reportedly plans to fire his top general Valery Zaluzhny in the next few days and will likely let go of all of the commander\u2019s deputies as well, a member of the country\u2019s parliament the Rada claimed in a Telegram post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The expected firing of Zaluzhny was initially revealed last week by several media outlets. However, due to a leak of the information to the press, Zelensky appears to have postponed the decision. Nevertheless, he admitted on Sunday that he would be replacing his top commander and conducting a\u00a0\u201cserious\u201d<\/em>\u00a0overhaul of the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

According to MP Alexey Goncharenko, in tandem with Zaluzhny\u2019s sacking, the president intends to fire all of the general\u2019s deputies as well, including Evgeny Moysyuk, Nikolay Balan and Mikhail Zabrodsky. On the previous day Goncharenko had also denounced any attempts to diminish Zaluzhny\u2019s achievements and called the prospect of his firing a\u00a0\u201ccomplete disgrace\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for Zelensky, adding that it was\u00a0\u201cwrong\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0\u201cspin up negativity, play political games and raise tensions in society during a war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While Zelensky has not yet made it clear when Zaluzhny would be let go, another MP in the Rada, Evgeny Shevchenko, has suggested that the commander will be relieved of his position sometime this week. After that, he will reportedly be traveling to the UK to serve as Kiev\u2019s ambassador, Shevchenko said, noting that such a position will essentially be a\u00a0\u201cpolitical pension\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for the general.<\/p>\n

Zaluzhny\u2019s firing comes after months of strained relations between him and the Ukrainian president. That\u2019s after the two had a falling out over their assessments of the battlefield situation following Kiev\u2019s failed summer counteroffensive. In an article for The Economist in November, Zaluzhny described the situation on the ground as a\u00a0\u201cstalemate\u201d<\/em>\u00a0while Zelensky vehemently rejected that depiction.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Italy\u2019s RAI TG1 news channel on Sunday, however, Zelensky appeared to have changed his tune and admitted that there were issues on the front line. In order to solve them, he said that there needs to be a complete overhaul of the country\u2019s leadership, which would not be focused on replacing just a single person, apparently referring to Zaluzhny.<\/p>\n

The top Ukrainian commander, meanwhile, has reportedly told the president, as per the Washington Post, that no amount of leadership changes would result in any rapid improvements on the battlefield, insisting that Kiev\u2019s forces needed more recruits to gain an advantage. He also stressed that Ukraine needs to prepare for more personnel losses in 2024.<\/p>\n

According to Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry, Kiev lost more than 23,000 soldiers in January. In December, the ministry estimated that since the start of the conflict, over 383,000 of Ukraine\u2019s troops had been killed or wounded.<\/p>\n

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…with no viable and qualified replacements. Zelensky to fire his top general\u2019s deputies \u2013 MP The Commander-in-Chief of Kiev\u2019s Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny will reportedly also be replaced sometime this week RT.com Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}