Posted on 02/05/2024 3:30:05 PM PST by Navy Patriot
The Ukrainian government could be heading for a major reset, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters in a press conference on February 4 that he is considering replacing several senior officials.
Speculation over the potential dismissal of highly popular commander Valeriy Zaluzhnyi had been growing over the past few weeks. Mr. Zaluzhnyi and Mr. Zelenskyy have been at odds over the handling of the war with Russia, which has been ongoing for almost two years.
Mr. Zelenskyy, however, said that any changes would amount to more than replacing a single person, as he is ramping up efforts to oust Russian troops.
“When I speak of turnover, I have in mind something serious that does not concern a single person, but the direction of the country’s leadership,” Mr. Zelenskyy told Italian state RAI television when asked about Mr. Zaluzhnyi.
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The NeoCons not forcing the 500K additional draftees is about the only good news we have had in this war.
It means this slaughter is nearly over.
I know, but the current Uke supporters refuse to remember history like that.
Current Uke supporters do Nazi that they are Nazis.
Yeah.
I liked hearing about Avdiivka about a week before the propagandists started trying to spin it.
Next it’ll get quiet about it.
How long before March 31 will the purges begin?
ROFL!! I did Nazi that coming.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4214910/posts?page=110#110
Tell me about it.
It's too inconvenient for them.
Start with HIM
True, true.
More likely the non-Ukrainian Zelensky will lose his job, rather than Zaluzhny.
Amid reports of looming dismissal, top Ukrainian general flirts on Facebook with far-right military leader
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/zaluzhny-firing-right-sector/
Amid rampant speculation that he is about to be fired, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny is posing on social media alongside far-right imagery and members of the country’s military.
The Washington Post reported on Friday, Feb. 2, that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told the White House that he was planning to fire Zaluzhny, whom he’d clashed with over military strategy over “battlefield setbacks” in the country’s war with Russia.
Zaluzhny reportedly argued that Ukraine needed to conscript new recruits between 18-27 to make gains on the battlefield, something which Zelensky said the country wouldn’t be able to fund without raising taxes.
The same day, 67th Mechanized Brigade commander Andriy Stempitsky posted a photo of himself with a smiling Zaluzhny being presented with an award from his brigade in front of a photo of the World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
Bandera, a far-right ethnonationalist who wrote about his movement’s affinity with Nazi race policies, was nevertheless jailed by the Germans for much of the war. His followers, however, formed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which carried out massacres of as many as 100,000 Poles and thousands of Jews.
“The award [of the brigade] … was presented to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces General Valery Zaluzhny,” Stempitsky wrote in the post. In addition to the portrait of Bandera, the two men are standing in front of a red and black flag with skulls and crossbones on it, as well as the slogan “to victory, without negotiations,” independent researcher Moss Robeson, who writes about the afterlives of the UPA and the Bandera movement, told the Daily Dot.
“Stempitsky is also a leader of the Right Sector political party,” Robeson said, referring to a right-wing group of hardline ultranationalist parties in Ukraine that came together out of paramilitary movements during the Euromaidan movement.
“He’s a former leader of Tryzub, a paramilitary group created … in the 1990s. Right Sector has plenty of neo-Nazis (including in the leadership of its party) but Tryzub seems to be like their Banderite vanguard.”
Stempitsky’s 67th Mechanized Brigade was formed when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 from the Right Sector’s paramilitary group. Right Sector has a history of both flirting with and actively integrating members of the Ukrainian far-right into its ranks. According to a report from Haaretz, they handed out copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the fabricated antisemitic conspiracy text Protocols of the Elders of Zion during demonstrations in 2014.
According to a report in the Financial Times in December, Zaluzhny and Zelensky have had a strained relationship for over a year. Zaluzhny is seen as a potential rival for the presidency when elections are held next, polling at 40% to Zelensky’s 42%, as well as being viewed as more trustworthy by Ukrainians compared to Zelensky.
Zaluzhny’s popular reputation was on full display in the comment section of Stempitsky’s post, with a long list of praise for the general.
“Zaluzhny is an amazing person! The iron general indeed!” commented one person in Ukrainian.
“Commander – pay attention here, judging by the likes,” added another one.
Uke Nazi Zeepers like Phoney Kinetics.
What, with a BiG RED button like hitlery with Russia Russia— she was sooooooo brilliant they spelled the Russian words on the button.. wrong. The State Dept. could not spell proper Russian.
Zelensky the pimp of the Ukrainian skim project. All in and... all out. Humpty Dumpty.
Lol, yes.
The button said “Overcharge” instead of “Reset”.
Unfortunately, Ukraine is also infested and infected with original strain Nazism and Eastern birthed, Western perfected, Corruption.
Those exceptional officers, (whom are short of well trained and reasonably experienced troops), will not be able to bring Ukraine a favorable negotiated peace, if the American NeoCons would allow it.
I learned to read with phonetics. That's the way they taught kids in the 50's. My mother taught me to read before I went to Kindergarten. I've always loved reading, and at 76, I'm still an avid reader. I usually have 4 or five hard and softcover books that I try to read from every day. Then I always have two books on my Kindle that I read from before turning out the light at night. I'm a long-time student of history.
I learned to read the same way you did in the early ‘60s in a Catholic elementary school in an America that vanished a long time ago.
“There’s a history in all men’s lives’’ said the Bard of Avon.
Currently I’m reading James Holland’s “Normandy ‘44.’’
I don’t think they (Zeepers) will give up until the last YT monetization dollar out there goes bust.
Einsatzgruppen A through K, although Einsatz Gruppe C was designated for operations in Ukraine.
Thanks for the information. I recently watched a YouTube video of Mark Felton's. He's a British historian who does videos mostly on WWII topics. It's titled: "The Hitler Wannabe - Dutch Quisling Mussert." I never knew there were Dutch SS units in Holland, until I saw the video. My father was born in Holland in 1904, and came to the U.S. with his parents and two brothers in 1913. I've read a book about the 1st Canadian Forces that fought a long, hard battle across Holland to capture the ports on the way to Antwerp. They went right through the village my father had been born in. I visited the village of Schoondijke in 2006, and learned that the place had just about been destroyed by allied bombing. The hotel we stayed at, had an aerial photo of the devastation that had been done.
If you're interested in watching the video, it's 13 minutes and 27 seconds long. If you aren't familiar with Mark, he does excellent research on all his videos, and reports on topics, like this one, that most people never heard of. Here's the link:
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