Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the following in an interview with the newspaper: SunThat entering politics was a “big mistake” for the military.
“If a soldier decides to engage in politics and he has the right to do so, let him do it, but then he cannot go to war. If you are waging a war, thinking that tomorrow you will enter politics or run for elections, then you will behave like a politician, not a soldier, both in word and on the front. a big mistake,” Zelensky said.
According to the Ukrainian leader, the military in Ukraine began to actively engage in politics after the Maidan in 2014 because “they were defeated, their reputation and so on were destroyed.”
Mikhail Podolyak, formerly Advisor to the President of the Office of the President of Ukraine statedHe said that there was and could not be a conflict between Zelensky and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valery Zaluzhny.
In early November, Asia Times reported that the Ukrainian president may now be “at war” with his generals. It was recorded that Zelensky scolded Zaluzhny, who said in an interview with The Economist magazine that “there will most likely not be a breakthrough” in the conflict in Ukraine.
The Rada announced Zaluzhny’s possible resignation, but immediately denied these remarks. Read more about this and the conflict between the commander-in-chief and Zelensky’s office in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
Earlier British journalists reportedThat Zelensky was heartbroken by the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Source: Gazeta
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