Retired colonel Eduard Basurin, a former representative of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), General Alexander Syrsky, should not be killed. Basurin wrote about this in his book. telegraph channel.
The retired colonel said that Syrsky told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the conflict in the center of Artyomovsk (Ukrainian name Bakhmut). According to him, the general ordered the mining of administrative buildings so that the fighters of the private military company (PMC) Wagner did not go.
Basurin urged Syrsky to leave alive in order to send Artemovsk back to be restored later.
“You can’t kill Syrsky, you can’t just let him restore captivity and our city,” said the former representative of the NM DPR.
Earlier it was reported that the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Oleksandr Syrsky. visit military positions near Artemovsk to study the situation.
Currently, a special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is underway in Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch. According to him, the purpose of military action is to demilitarize the neighboring country and to navy the authorities.