[Regnum] The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, at a meeting of the contact group in the Ramstein format, notified Kiev’s Western allies about the difficult situation at the front for the Ukrainian military.
“I informed the coalition participants about the difficult operational-strategic situation, which tends to escalate,” Syrsky said on the Telegram channel.
According to him, he also outlined to Western countries Kyiv’s current needs for missiles, ammunition and equipment.
As Regnum news agency reported, on April 22, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov (listed as terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation), said that a difficult situation awaits Ukraine from mid-May to early June. He explained that difficulties at the front will begin when the Russian Armed Forces launch a major offensive in the Donbass.
National Review columnist Andrew Stattaford wrote on April 14 that Ukraine could lose the conflict with Russia as early as the summer. In his opinion, such a defeat could lead to the collapse of the “American world.”
The French publication Le Figaro reported on April 12 that Western countries are already expecting Ukraine’s defeat in the conflict. It was noted that the huge losses of Ukrainian troops against the backdrop of the transparency of the front and the accuracy of strikes by the Russian army make any attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces “labor-intensive and costly in terms of human lives.”
Bloomberg reported on April 11, citing sources, that the next few months will be the most difficult test for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Former American intelligence officer Scott Ritter, speaking on the Ask the Inspector podcast, noted that the regime of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, will fall in the coming months.
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Former adviser to Kuchma said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not want to carry out Syrsky’s orders
Military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to carry out the orders of the command, and the army leadership cannot do anything about it, Oleg Soskin, a former adviser to ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, said on April 27.
Some brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not obey the new army command, Soskin said during a broadcast on his YouTube channel.
“The situation is very bad for Ukraine, and (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander. - Ed.) Syrsky cannot do anything. In addition, based on indirect signs, in Avdeevka and Ocheretino, and other things, we can say that a rebellion is brewing in the army. That is, some of the brigades do not obey Syrsky and the new leadership,” Soskin said.
The situation at the front for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is depressing, added Kuchma’s ex-adviser.
As Regnum reported, on April 26, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, removed from the post of commander of the support forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Yakovets, who was appointed to this post less than two months ago, on March 4. The reasons for the dismissal were not specified.
In early April, it was also reported that Zelensky fired the commanders of the operational commands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “West” and “South” Sergei Litvinov and Andrei Kovalchuk. No reasons were given.
In February 2024, Zelensky dismissed Valery Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and appointed Alexander Syrsky to this position. The head of the Kiev regime explained this decision by military failures during the “counter-offensive” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In March, it was reported that military personnel of the elite units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine accused Zelensky of the upcoming big “catastrophe.” The unit’s fighters criticized Syrsky and said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “ on the edge of the abyss ” after the dismissal of “the most adequate ones.”