[Regnum] The fighters among themselves call the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky a butcher. This was reported by former intelligence officer of the 40th coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yevhen Bodeyko.
"Syrsky is called a butcher. He simply sends people to assaults and forgets about them. There is no equipment, no weapons," TASS quoted a soldier captured in the Kharkov region as saying.
He said that the level of training of servicemen who join the ranks of the Ukrainian army leaves much to be desired. According to him, fighters are sent to positions as soon as they learn to hold a machine gun.
Also, according to him, there is a big problem with the equipment. It is often out of order, and the machine guns installed on it "jam". Bodeiko added that in the reconnaissance company where he served, there were only five combat vehicles, and the military equipment never went out and fired.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 27, Syrsky reported to the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, about the difficult situation in many areas of the front. He reported intense fighting in the Krasnoarmeysky, Krasnolimansky and Kramatorsk directions. The day before, on April 26, the adviser to the head of the DPR, Igor Kimakovsky, reported that the defense of the Ukrainian armed formations was "cracked" along the entire front line. In particular, the tense situation remains in the Donetsk and Kupyansk directions.
At the end of February, the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Sergei Rudskoy, reported that the number of killed and wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the previous year alone was 590 thousand. In total, since the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 1 million people, he emphasized.
Last February, after Syrsky was appointed commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian military officials told journalists that he had been nicknamed the butcher in the army. They said he was sending his subordinates to certain death for nominal successes that did not benefit the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The American publication Politico wrote that the Ukrainian military “dubbed” the 58-year-old commander-in-chief “the butcher” and “General 200” due to the losses of the army under his command.
Ukrainian serviceman Sergei Good, who was captured by Russia, said in March 2024 that his fellow servicemen, who criticized the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were taken away by special services. What happened to them is unknown, the prisoner added.