- A bid to revive momentum in war soon to start third year
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“I think it’s more of a sign of desperation,” he added, summing up the thinking as: “We don’t actually have anything we can do that will make a substantial difference, but we’re going to do something anyway.”
Ukraine looks for new start after Zelensky fires top general
". . .While there was speculation that Zaluzhny posed a political threat to Zelensky because of his immense popularity, the firing was likely more about dueling narratives from the two leaders, said Jean-Marc Rickli, head of global and emerging risks at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
When he announced the changing of the guard on Thursday, Zelensky said it was “not about politics.” He thanked Zaluzhny for his time and said he offered him another position, but he stressed it was time for new leadership and that the “generalship must be reset.”
- Zelensky noted Ukraine’s difficulties with the war in his Thursday speech, warning that the Ukrainian people were “speaking of victory less often.”
- “We failed to achieve the goals of our state on land,” Zelensky said of the failed 2023 counteroffensive.
- “We have to be honest, the feeling of stagnation … has affected the public mood.”
- speeding up weapons deliveries,
- rotating units and
- investing more heavily in strategies like drones and electronic warfare.
- Sevimlisoy said there should be more “direct synchronicity with the United States” and he assessed Ukraine was evolving into a more “capable wartime state,” which would naturally involve domestic and political leadership changes.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces has gone from being just a defensive army fighting against Russia, to a wider army that is defending the tenants of [the West] because the campaign … is not just a campaign to stop Russia,” he said. “It is a wider conflict, where we are preserving the integrity of NATO.”
- Syrsky is “known as the defender of Kyiv and also [for] the Kharkiv counteroffensive and ,”then suddenly he will be responsible for a withdrawal that people don’t want to make,” Arnold said.
“It might also backfire on Zelensky because it’ll be Zelensky who changed things and already there’s been an operational loss.”
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