© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint press convention with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Polish President Andrzej Duda, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Ph
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in an interview broadcast on Sunday, mentioned he was contemplating changing a number of senior officers, and never simply within the army, to find out who’s to steer the nation.
Hypothesis has gripped Ukraine over strategies that the president is about to dismiss the commander of Ukraine’s army, Valery Zaluzhnyi. The 2 have been at odds over the conduct of the practically two-year-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“It is a question of the people who are to lead Ukraine,” Zelenskiy advised Italian state RAI tv when requested about Zaluzhnyi. His feedback had been voiced over in Italian.
“A reset is necessary, I am talking about a replacement of a number of state leaders, not only in the army sector. I am reflecting on this replacement. Is a question for the entire leadership of the country.”
He mentioned that to introduce the required adjustments, “I have in mind something serious that does not concern a single person but the direction of the country’s leadership”.
“If we want to win we must all push in the same direction, we cannot be discouraged, we must have the right and positive energy, negativity must be left at home. We can’t take on giving-up attitudes.”
Variations have come to the fore since a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched final 12 months made solely restricted beneficial properties in opposition to Russian forces nicely dug in alongside the 1,000-km (600-mile) entrance line in Ukraine’s south and east.
Zaluzhnyi gave an interview to a Western media outlet in November by which he mentioned the conflict had entered a brand new section of attrition. That drew a rebuke from the president.
Final week as hypothesis over his dismissal intensified, he set out his case in a commentary for broadcaster CNN for brand new digital technique of warfare.
He additionally mentioned some Ukrainian establishments had been stopping the nation from attaining its aims, together with efforts to construct an efficient combating power to match Russian numerical superiority.
