By KYIV. Nov 29 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Maryana Bezuhla (Servant of the People faction) accuses Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny of allegedly publishing sponsored articles in The Economist.
“So, what you’ve got left, Valeriy Fedorovych? Sponsored articles in The Economist… It is so general-like – to be silent in Ukraine and throw this to the foreigners for review? Maybe, you have something to say directly? Not to me, to Ukrainians,” she said on Facebook on Wednesday.
Bezuhla also said that Zaluzhny must give Ukrainian citizens the answers to a number of questions, in particular, why transfers of servicemen between the units take months, why “inexperienced” groups receive new equipment, why “a person can be sent to assault without proper training even regardless of the law we have adopted”?
As reported, earlier the MP criticized Zaluzhny for the lack of an action plan for 2024 and said the commander-in-chief should resign.
At the beginning of November, Zaluzhny said in an article published by The Economist that the war against Russia is moving to the “positional” stage which carries enormous risks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukraine, so the only way out will be superiority over the enemy in everything, namely “air superiority, significantly improved electronic warfare and anti-battery warfare capabilities, new mine clearance technologies and the ability to mobilize and train more reserves.”
In addition, the commander-in-chief pointed out that it is necessary to focus on modern command and control, as well as streamlining Ukrainian logistics, while simultaneously destroying the Russian system with longer-range missiles.
“New, innovative approaches can turn this war of position back into one of manoeuvre,” Zaluzhny said.
