The Ukrainian army will have to evolve and be ready to change the way it fights Russian forces to win the war: the new commander-in-chief of the Kiev armed forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, said today.
“Only changes and continuous improvement of the means and methods of warfare will allow us to succeed on this path,” Syrsky said in his first public comments since taking office.
And from Moscow, meanwhile, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, declared that the change at the top of the Ukrainian armed forces, with the replacement of General Valery Zaluzhny with Syrsky, "will not change the course" of the conflict in Ukraine.
The Economist, torpedoing Zaluzhny could be a risk for Zelensky
The sacking of Zaluzhny, announced yesterday by President Volodymyr Zelensky, risks penalizing the Ukrainian leader and having negative repercussions on the conflict against Russia.
The British weekly Economist writes, according to which the general played a "crucial and against all odds" role in repelling Moscow's forces in the first days of the invasion and therefore acquired great popularity among his troops and Ukrainian civilians.
But, above all, the decision to replace the army leadership marks the beginning of a new phase of the war, in which the choice of the Ukrainian leader "may prove to be wrong", underlines the newspaper.
"The most important question is whether Zelensky will be able to take advantage of the torpedoing of General Zaluzhny to reorient his vision of the war", continues the weekly, which raises some doubts about the choice of replacement, General Syrsky, as he has the reputation of a ready commander to incur high costs in terms of men and equipment in order to face the enemy.
The Economist notes that despite Zelensky's intentions, "unless something completely unexpected changes, a
war defined by territory is a war that Ukraine cannot win."
A relationship of full collaboration between political and military leaders with precise and shared objectives therefore becomes crucial, as well as a greater capacity to produce weapons at a national level through and less dependence on foreign aid.
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