[Regnum] Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky arrived on the front line, he called the situation there difficult and accused individual commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of failures. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on February 29 in the Telegram channel.
According to Syrsky, the situation in the area where the Ukrainian troops are conducting the operation remains difficult. He called the situation in the Avdeevka and Zaporozhye directions particularly tense.
Syrsky noted that there are severe clashes in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy. He also stated that in the work of some commanders, miscalculations in mastering the situation were discovered.
As Regnum reported, Ukrainian troops will continue to retreat due to problems in receiving assistance from the West, said retired junior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Gudymenko. He added that the Russian army's offensive will continue.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, announced mass checks of the Ukrainian troops against the backdrop of their surrender of Avdiivka and Krynok. According to him, first of all it is necessary to solve the problem of reserves, since their unpreparedness has led to significant consequences.
Zelensky also admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue to retreat under the pressure of the Russian army and Ukraine will lose new territories every day. The ratio of forces between Ukraine and Russia is one to seven, he added.
The combat effectiveness of even the most elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been severely undermined due to serious losses, noted columnists for the American military magazine Military Watch Magazine on February 27. Front-line units suffer huge losses, reaching 80–90% of their combat strength.
More recriminations reported from regnum.ru
Merkuris: Commander-in-Chief Syrsky accuses officers of the defeat in Zaporozhye and Donbass
[Regnum] The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, criticized high-ranking subordinates for the failure of the army in Zaporozhye and Donbass. British military expert Alexander Merkouris spoke about this.
According to the analyst, the commander-in-chief was indignant at the situation at the front and blamed the officers.
“Syrsky blames his subordinates. He accused local commanders of the fact that the situation in Zaporozhye and near Avdiivka is worsening,” Merkouris said in his blog on the YouTube channel.
The expert also explained that the commander-in-chief is trying to change the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the better, sending more and more people into battle.
“But the Russian army cannot be contained,” admitted Alexander Merkouris.
As reported by IA Regnum, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky arrived on the front line, he called the situation there difficult and accused individual commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of failures.
About 20 Ukrainian militants were killed during an attempt to land on the Tendra spit in the Kherson region, one of them was captured, the regional governor Vladimir Saldo said on February 29.
Saboteurs from the 73rd Center for Special Naval Operations tried to land from high-speed boats on the Tendra Spit. There are no populated areas in this part of the Black Sea coast of the Kherson region; rather, this is what the enemy was counting on. Kiev recognized the liquidation of an elite detachment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region. The exact number of deaths was not stated.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than a third of the US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles supplied to them. The American magazine The National Interest wrote about this.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the departmental board on February 27 that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing 800 or more people per day, as well as 120 units of weapons and equipment. He noted that during the special operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 444,000 military personnel.