Oleksandr Syrskyi
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in alleged tensions with Fedorov.
Notable Quotes
"If I offended anyone, Mykhailo Albertovych [Fedorov], I'm sorry."View Story →
"Decisions on which people's lives depend are not made with slogans."View Story →
"Presentations should not turn into self-representations."View Story →
"Russian troops are not abandoning their plans for further offensive operations and are regrouping their available forces and equipment."View Story →
"Russian troops are not abandoning their plans for further offensive operations and are regrouping their available forces and equipment."View Story →
"Russian troops are not abandoning their plans for further offensive operations and are regrouping their available forces and equipment."View Story →
"Despite significant losses in personnel and military equipment, the invaders aim to seize more Ukrainian territory and establish a ‘buffer zone’ in the Dnipropetrovsk region."View Story →
"Commanders must ensure that conditions are in place for service personnel to remain at their posts for up to two months, followed by a mandatory rotation, which must take place within one month."View Story →
"Commanders must ensure that conditions are in place for service personnel to remain at their posts for up to two months, followed by a mandatory rotation, which must take place within one month."View Story →
"Timely rotation is not only a matter of organising service but a matter of preserving the lives of our soldiers and the stability of defence."View Story →
"Commanders must ensure that conditions are in place for service personnel."View Story →
"In order to preserve the lives and health of service members performing tasks both on the line of contact and in the rear, I have signed an order on the mandatory rotation of personnel carrying out tasks on the front line."View Story →
""Commanders must ensure that conditions are in place for service personnel to remain at their posts for up to two months, followed by a mandatory rotation, which must take place within one month.""View Story →
"We are repelling the Russian occupiers' persistent attempts to gain a foothold in the outskirts of Kostiantynivka using infiltration tactics."View Story →
"We are repelling the Russian occupiers’ persistent attempts to gain a foothold in the outskirts of Kostiantynivka using infiltration tactics."View Story →
"robotic systems carried out 50% more missions than in February."View Story →
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