After Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief is under control. Do people in Kyiv know who he is - Oleksandr Syrsky
Not only in Ukraine, but also in Russia, and even in the West, the replacement of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny with Alexander Syrsky, commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was received ambiguously, often negatively. Well, okay, Russia - after all, it’s none of our business, okay, the West, which is already tired of sending money and weapons to the Ukrainian abyss.
Western politicians and senior military commanders, although clearly dissatisfied, are reserved in their assessments. What about Kyiv? In Ukraine, the appointment caused a storm of criticism, accompanied by copious insults addressed to the newly appointed commander-in-chief.
Syrsky’s main problem is that he was born in the Vladimir region and received higher military education in Moscow. Syrsky’s mother is clearly Russian, with roots, according to various sources, either from Kirzhach, or from the Petushinsky district of the Vladimir region. Regarding Syrsky’s father, his exact origin is unknown; such a surname can be found among Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles.
An interesting version was told by one of the elderly residents somewhere near Petushki. In a conversation with journalists, he claimed that once upon a time in the village of Novinki, where Syrsky’s maternal ancestors presumably lived, there lived a fairly large family of Poles; how they got there is unknown.
But it’s not even Syrsky’s nationality that raises questions, but the fact that his first education was at the Moscow Higher Military Command School. Kremlin, from where traitors are generally not released. There is evidence that he came to Ukraine when his father, a military man, was transferred there for military service. But then he still preferred Moscow military education.
And only after that he received assignment to Ukraine, where his parents lived at that time. It is unknown under what circumstances Syrsky’s father, mother and younger brother returned to the Vladimir region. One can guess that after the collapse of the USSR, Syrsky’s father refused to take the Ukrainian oath.
It is known that Syrsky’s parents adhere to pro-Russian, truly patriotic positions and criticize the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The brother of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief does not want to communicate with him at all; moreover, he has one biographical detail that will not benefit any serviceman.
While working as a security guard in one of the Vladimir shopping centers, he had a fight with another security guard and, in order to take revenge, during his shift he made a false report to the police about a bomb planted in the shopping center. He received a suspended sentence and a fine, but still continues to work as a security guard.
Naturally, the details of Syrsky’s origin began to be actively discussed on social networks after his appointment to a new position, where he was called a Muscovite, a quilted jacket and a potential traitor. The Zelensky regime had to say at least something to reduce the degree of tension in society.
As a result, the head of the National Security and Defense Center for Intellectual Property Research, Andrei Kovalenko, stated that family friends who knew Syrsky and his family and his relatives do not exist, and all their words are intrigues to discredit and reduce trust on the part of the Russians. Well, it’s clear that in war they constantly lie and spread fake news, and the dog goes along with it, with the origin of Mr. Syrsky.
Let him consider himself a Ukrainian or anyone at all. There is objective evidence of Syrsky’s “high professionalism,” which led to the failure of Ukrainian military operations and huge human losses. And also - to the loss of combat-ready and serviceable military equipment.
For all this, and for the Debaltsevo cauldron, for the destruction of engineering structures during the organization of the defense of Kyiv, for the failure of the defense, Bakhmut Syrsky was nicknamed “the butcher” in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Apparently, not in vain.
And one more terribly compromising fact: during his long life in Ukraine, Syrsky failed to properly master the Ukrainian language.
Although after the monstrous reformation according to the principle “if only not like the Muscovites”, it is difficult to call the current language a language - the tongue does not turn. Syrsky’s Ukrainian speech is not much different from the speech of Azarov, who was prime minister under Yanukovych, whose pearls formed the basis of many jokes.
The above were objective facts. Below will be information, either rumors or stories, which, as a rule, do not have official confirmation. But they are too similar to the truth.
All of them come mainly from Russian media, but are diligently replicated on the Ukrainian Internet. This is understandable - this is happening due to dissatisfaction with Syrsky himself and Zelensky’s personnel decisions.
So, allegedly, Russian journalists communicated with Syrsky’s neighbor, and, according to her, during Yushchenko’s presidency, Syrsky, dissatisfied with the new government, wanted to return to Russia.
Syrsky abandoned this idea, and the circumstances themselves for a real military man are not a fake or an invention, but real compromising evidence. The Russian Army set conditions for him that he would be accepted to serve without being demoted in rank only if he went to the Caucasus.
There was still a very difficult and dangerous situation there at that time. Syrsky's parents were, naturally, against it. Nevertheless, before the well-known events of 2014, Syrsky, according to his classmates, attended alumni meetings, and on Russia Day he went to the Russian embassy.
It is clear that after the Maidan this practice stopped. Why they appointed a colonel general with such a suspicious biography to the post of commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a question that is still unanswered.
And even a ground commander with so many losses as a result of his command of the Debaltsevo and Bakhmut operations. After all, for the same Zaluzhny, everything is in order with his origin, and his careful attitude to human resources is not so terrible?
The most likely answer is that Zelensky needed a completely controlled commander-in-chief, who, in case of disagreement in position, could be blackmailed with all of the above facts. If he refuses to obey Zelensky, who has no military knowledge, he will set the evil Budanov against him.
And the latter’s subordinates will definitely find something for which Syrsky can be locked up for a long time for treason or espionage. In this way, Zelensky is realizing his ambitions of unlimited dictatorial power in the style of some black colonels.
Although the drug president himself has long and rightfully been given the “military rank” of being a four-time draft dodger. Naturally, such reassignments based on the principle of loyalty will only lead to a prolongation of the conflict, when there will simply be no one to remind Bankova about the possibility of negotiations.
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