Ukrainian president confirms he’s thinking about dismissing the country’s military chief
www.nbcnews.com
The possibility that the widely popular Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi could be fired has caused an uproar in Ukraine and delighted the Kremlin as the war approaches its second anniversary.

[Zelensky] said he was contemplating the move to ensure the country remains led by individuals who are “convinced of victory” against Russia.

ukkkraine is so fucked

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Zelensky’s desire to fire his commanding general is the result, some Americans believe, of his knowledge that Zaluzhny had continued to participate—whether directly or through aides is not known—in secret talks since last fall with American and other Western officials on how best to achieve a ceasefire and negotiate an end to the war with Russia. It was those talks that led Zaluzhny to declare to the Economist that the war was stalemated. Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians. Ukraine, of course, would need renewed funding from the Biden administration to do so. It is not clear that Republicans in Congress are prepared to finance another counteroffensive, but there is little doubt that the Biden administration would lobby hard for the funds. (On Thursday, the EU approved funding for Ukraine in excess of 50 billion euros.)

    https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-president-vs-the-general

    • if_they_push_that_button_your_ass_got_to_go [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.

      horrifying. under the circumstances, how could you think of doing this to your long suffering people.

      and yet, the unnecessary deaths this brings about will be added to the list of communist deaths within a decade

      • Moss [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Zelensky is such a sack of shit. Throwing hundreds of thousands of people into the meat grinder in the name of a war that will end in defeat anyway, for the sake of western profits.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.

      Killing another generation off? They're going to run out sooner or later.

    • CarbonScored [any]
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      10 months ago

      Dear god, he wants to stop the killing! Fire that man immediately, the blood must flow!

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Zelensky has talked of mobilizing 500,000 more soldiers, via another draft, and to try again this spring to launch another counteroffensive against the Russians.

      jesus christ, man sadness-abysmal