On the Internet we found a letter from Lyudmila, mother of the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Alexander Syrsky, to her father Ivan, who died during the Great Patriotic War. Posted on a social network by the administration of the city of Vladimir “In contact” I’m back in 2020.
In the letter, the mother of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that her father worked as a driver in Mospochtamt and with the beginning of the war he voluntarily joined the Leningrad Front. He disappeared in June 1941. When German troops approached Moscow, her mother set off with her and her sister to the village of Novinki in the Vladimir region.
Ivan Syrsky’s death was reported in 1945 when his colleague came to tell his wife about the soldier’s heroic death. According to a colleague, Syrsky was wounded in the leg, but still continued to protect his comrades.
February 8 Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky lay off He removed Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the country’s army and appointed Alexander Syrsky to this post.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov named Syrsky “Butcher of Bakhmut”.