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Russia spoke up after Ukraine `changed generals midstream` 0
(Dan Tri) – Russian officials commented on the news that Ukraine replaced Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces Valery Zaluzhny and appointed a new face to replace him.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky talks with General Oleksandr Syrsky (Photo: AFP).
The Kremlin said on February 9 that Ukraine’s appointment of a new commander in chief of the armed forces would not lead to any changes in the nearly two-year conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
Ukraine on February 8 replaced the head of the armed forces Valery Zaluzhny.
`We don’t think it’s a factor that will change the course of the special military operation,` Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Colonel Oleksandr Syrsky as the country’s new commander, an experienced general behind two major military achievements of Kiev in nearly 2 years.
When the conflict began, he led the successful defense of Kiev, forcing Russia to withdraw.
Mr. Peskov also said on February 9 that Russia would continue its military campaign `until the goals are achieved.`
The front line has hardly changed in more than a year of fighting and both sides have suffered major losses in both manpower and military equipment.
Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine needed new military leadership after a failed counteroffensive last summer.
Meanwhile, Vice Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Mr. Dmitry Medvedev, on February 9 accused the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine of `betrayal`, because Mr. Syrsky is of Russian origin.
Mr. Syrsky was born in July 1965 in the Vladimir region of Russia, then part of the Soviet Union.
He served five years in the Soviet Artillery Corps and lived in Ukraine since the 1980s.
Mr Medvedev accused Mr Syrsky, who did not serve in the post-Soviet Russian army, of violating his oath as an officer, instead becoming a `traitor to Bandera`.
Bandera refers to Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist during World War II.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has lasted for nearly 2 years but there are no signs that the conflict will cool down.
Meanwhile, Russia announced that it did not refuse negotiations, but `only negotiate after all the goals of the special military campaign, including de-Nazification and demilitarization of the Kiev government, are achieved.`