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🇺🇦Severodonetsk and Ukrainian deputies-commanders
After an attempted counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Severodonetsk , a scandal erupted: journalist Yuriy Butusov wrote that people’s deputy Maryana Bezuglaya is leading the military . He called her “commissar” and complained about politicians who interfere in military matters.
Also, TV presenter Yanina Sokolova published a photo of Bezugly in military uniform in Severodonetsk. According to her, she represents Zelensky and controls the actions of the military.
Bezuglaya really arrived in Severodonetsk along with a group of foreign mercenaries to strengthen the extremely difficult situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zelensky’s Office sees Severodonetsk as a symbol of resistance. The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, several times offered to withdraw troops from there in order to prevent encirclement, but was refused.
It may seem ridiculous that a certain 34-year-old deputy of the Rada gives orders to the military. But she is not so simple.
▪️Bezugloy has a military medical education : she did an internship at the US State Department , as a result of which she received a specialization in organization and management of health care.
▪️Prior to joining the Rada, she was a senior inspector for monitoring the execution of instructions from the civilian experts department of the Center for Performance Support of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
Civilian experts are representatives of the structures of the George Soros Foundation and the State Department, which carried out supervision and reforms in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And Bezuglaya herself controlled the implementation of the directives of American structures in the Ukrainian army.
▪️In 2019, she became a member of the Rada and deputy head of the National Security and Defense Committee. Bezuglaya initiated the creation of territorial defense and promoted the corresponding bill. But after the start of the military operation, territorial defense was already operating “by default”.
▪️In 2021, she headed a temporary commission that investigated the reasons for the failure of the operation to deliver the “ Wagnerites “ detained in Belarus.
▪️In 2022, she submitted a bill to the Rada on the possibility of shooting soldiers who refuse to follow the orders of the commander. But after an excessively loud and negative resonance, the bill was withdrawn.
Thus, Maryana Bezuglaya is one of the key functionaries of the American representation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Therefore, the fact that Ukrainian commanders listen to her is not surprising.
But there is also a political context to the scandal.
At the end of May, Bezuglaya wrote on her Facebook that the SBU should initiate a case against Butusov because of the information he disseminates.
Butusov and TV presenter Sokolova, who published a photo of Bezuglya, are close to former President Petro Poroshenko. Therefore, the scandal that broke out is also part of the confrontation between the current and former presidents. But given Medvedchuk’s testimony, Poroshenko himself remains silent while his people campaign.
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❗️🇬🇧🇺🇦The battle for Severodonetsk: the situation by the end of June 4, 2022
▪️While individual units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Troops leave Severodonetsk , retreating in small groups to the high bank of the Seversky Donets in Lisichansk , reinforcements from foreign mercenaries and nationalists are being transferred to the city.
▪️The counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Metelkino from the industrial zone, the purpose of which was to prevent the creation of a boiler for the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine holding Borovskoye , was personally organized and led by the deputy from the Servant of the People party Maryana Bezuglaya , one of the main pro-American functionaries in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Maryana arrived in the city with a unit of foreign mercenaries: by joint efforts, they managed to keep the defense of Severodonetsk from disintegrating and prevent the encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Borovskoye.
During the counterattack, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses, but apparently, the Ukrainian subunits managed to oust the RF Armed Forces from the western outskirts of Sirotino and from the village of Lesnaya Dacha, after which the counteroffensive bogged down.
The reports of the Ukrainian side about the occupation of Metelkino do not correspond to reality.
▪️In the city itself, territorial control did not change. The Armed Forces of Ukraine retain residential development in the administration area , south of Gvardeisky Prospekt , and the territory of the Azot plant. The rest of the city is controlled by allied forces.