Russian leaders say recent changes at the highest levels of Ukraine’s military will not change the ongoing invasion.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Appointed Сol on Thursday. General Oleksandr Shirschiky was appointed as the country’s highest-ranking army general in the reorganization of the country’s armed forces.
“We do not believe that it will be a factor in changing the direction of the ‘special military operation,'” Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science Education via video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin pool photo, via AP)
Silschy was replaced. General Valery Zarzini After nearly two years of Russia-Ukraine war, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian military.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also reacted to the appointment in a scathing essay posted on his Telegram account.
“When I look at the biography of the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Shirushkyi, I feel hatred, contempt and disgust,” Medvedev wrote on a social media platform, according to Reuters.
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President Oleksandr Shirushkyi awarded the award to Ukrainian fighters of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade “Edelweiss” on their way to Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Yuri Mate/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
“I am disgusted by the man who was a Soviet Russian officer, turned traitor to Bandera, broke his oath to serve the Nazis, and destroyed his loved ones. May the earth burn under his feet. !” the former president added.
Stepan Bandera was a far-right Ukrainian nationalist leader from the World War II era who is often cited by the Kremlin to justify invasions.
He is sometimes cited by President Putin and the Russian establishment as the architect of the “Nazification” of Ukraine.
Mr. Medvedev currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council.
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Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks at a meeting with Security Council members in Moscow. (Photo by ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
President Zelensky said his decision to hand over the position to a new commander was not a reflection of Zarouzhny’s performance, but was part of a broader overhaul of the country’s war leadership.
“Now is the time for such a renewal,” Zelenskiy said.
“We need a reset, a new beginning,” Zelenskiy added. Ukraine’s president insisted that the review was “not about individuals, but about the direction of the country’s leadership.”
