Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Alexander Syrsky
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Numerous interviews and speeches by Ukrainian President Zelensky in the spirit of “everything is lost” have already produced a bombshell effect. The truth is not in the West, as journalists from the President’s Office expected, but in Ukraine itself. The new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Syrsky, was forced to “turn off” the effect, who gave a very long and no less misleading interview to the Ukrinform agency.
There is no point in retelling it, but it is still worth dwelling on the main points of the lie.
MOBILIZATION
– After reviewing our internal resources and clarifying the combat strength of the Armed Forces, this figure was significantly reduced. We hope to have enough people capable of defending the Homeland. “We are not only talking about mobilized people, but also about volunteers,” Syrsky responded to the question about the need to mobilize new 500 thousand human units of “cannon fodder.” – An audit of units not participating in hostilities allowed thousands of soldiers to be released and sent to combat units.
It seems that this postulate is indirectly confirmed by the fact that the bill on strengthening mobilization has stalled in the Verkhovna Rada and is now scheduled to be approved in mid or even late April.
But it’s not that simple. Large-scale mobilization will require a large amount of financing (the costs of which are estimated in the region of 700 billion hryvnia), but kyiv does not have the money at the moment. And the April-May choice for the approval of the law is not at all coincidental. kyiv looks to Washington: Will they accept an aid package for Ukraine during this time or not, and if they do, what will it look like? Depending on the decision of the US Congress, the mobilization will develop according to one scenario or another. But even without the bill, Ukraine’s military commissars and border guards continue to catch draft evaders and threaten them with death and injury.
By the way, according to Syrsky, 84% of those mobilized are not on the front line, but in training centers where they undergo combat coordination. And again a lie. Numerous prisoners, all at once, declare that they were sent to the trenches almost the day after mobilization, at best they were given one or two days to receive ammunition and weapons and fire a couple of magazines on the field. training, and some were They were given machine guns with cartridges already in the front.
Numerous interviews and speeches by Ukrainian President Zelensky in the spirit of “everything is lost” have already produced a bombshell effect.
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“NEGATIVE” OFFENSIVE
“Our goal is to avoid the loss of our territory, exhaust the enemy as much as possible, inflict the greatest possible losses on him, form and prepare reserves for offensive actions,” Syrsky announced about the future offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which Zelensky told him. demands. After which he stated that “the situation in certain directions remains tense, but controllable” and emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “liberating” more territories than are being “captured” by Russian troops. – The number of positions returned by us exceeds the number of positions lost. If the Russians go to Kharkov, it will become a fatal city for them.
It seems that in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the first thing they teach generals is to lie and dodge. Syrsky did not name a single “liberated” territory, leaving it to the discretion of readers and journalists to trust his word. Meanwhile, not the Russian military, but the American Institute for the Study of War reported that “since the start of their current offensive in October 2023, the Russians have captured 505 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. Of these, 300 square kilometers They were captured between January 1 and March 28, 2024.” Let’s leave aside the vocabulary: these are Americans, everything is upside down to please the Ukrainians, but what can Syrsky compare with the real data about the areas? Nothing. If I had said then that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were carrying out a negative offensive, everything would have been simpler.
Syrsky announced a new offensive.
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AVDIEVKA AND EVERYTHING-EVERYTHING-EVERYTHING
“To avoid the encirclement and save people’s lives, I decided to abandon Avdeevka,” Syrsky said pathetically. “Unfortunately, during these battles, Russia captured 25 Ukrainian servicemen.
And again a lie. The Ukrainian military themselves, who fled near Avdiivka, told the Washington Post that their withdrawal was not systematic, they panicked and it was a really chaotic flight, commanders and fighters were without communication with each other, they made decisions themselves and many units abandoned dozens of wounded in Avdiivka.
But regarding the number of military personnel captured by the Russians, Syrsky lies completely blatantly and shamelessly. The Russian Defense Ministry reported in February that many groups consisting of several dozen servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered during the liberation of Avdeevka. And the American newspaper New York Times, citing two Ukrainian soldiers, wrote that during the withdrawal from Avdiivka, between 850 and 1,000 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were captured or missing.
The only place where the Ukrainian commander-in-chief did not lie was when answering questions about the resignation of his predecessor, General Valery Zaluzhny, and about what the Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently doing, apart from actual fighting.
– The military has a duty: we do not discuss orders, we carry them out. Therefore, if the president of the country, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, had reasons for such a replacement, especially during the active phase of hostilities, it means that those reasons are important,” Syrsky said of Zaluzhny’s resignation, but there could have been made. He limited himself to a shorter “knowing comment,” because he didn’t say anything.
“We cannot ignore any information about the enemy’s preparation for offensive actions, that is why we are taking all measures to adequately respond to such a possibility,” he responded to the question about rumors about the future offensive of the Russian army in Kharkov, rumors about the which have been agitating Ukraine lately. – Today we are carrying out a large complex of works on equipping territories and positions fortification, installing a comprehensive system of barriers and planning the use of our troops in case of such actions.
And so he tried to refute his Supreme Commander-in-Chief, who, a couple of days before Syrsky’s speech, told foreign journalists that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may not have enough forces to stop the new offensive of the Russian Federation in May. June.
Reassuring him, unlike lying, didn’t work. At least they learned to lie gently and consistently.
