{"id":26089,"date":"2024-02-09T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/putin-russian-officials-react-to-new-ukrainian-commander-in-chief\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:44:15","slug":"putin-russian-officials-react-to-new-ukrainian-commander-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/putin-russian-officials-react-to-new-ukrainian-commander-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Russian officials react to new Ukrainian commander-in-chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian leaders say the recent change-up at the highest levels of the Ukrainian military will not make a difference in the ongoing invasion.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/u> on Thursday appointed \u0421ol. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi as the country’s highest-ranking army general of the country in a national military shake-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We don’t think it’s a factor that will change the course of the ‘special military operation’,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Russia President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education via video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.<\/span> (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Syrskyi\u00a0replaced Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi<\/u> as commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian military following nearly two years of the Russian-Ukrainian war.<\/p>\n

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also reacted to the appointment in a vitriolic essay posted to his Telegram account.<\/p>\n

“Looking at the biography of the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Syrskyi one feels a sense of hatred, contempt and disgust,” Medvedev wrote on the social media platform, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

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Oleksandr Syrskyi awards Ukrainian fighters of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade “Edelweiss” in the Soledar direction in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span> (Yuriy Mate\/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“Disgust for a man who was a Soviet Russian officer, but became a Bandera traitor, who broke his oath and serves the Nazis, destroying his loved ones. May the earth burn under his feet!” the former president added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stepan Bandera was a far-right Ukrainian nationalist leader in the World War II era who is often referenced by the Kremlin in justifying the invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is sometimes cited as an architect of “nazification” in Ukraine by Putin and the ruling Russian regime.<\/p>\n

Medvedev\u00a0currently serves as deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council.<\/p>\n

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Deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting with members of the Security Council in Moscow.<\/span> (Photo by ALEXEY NIKOLSKY\/Sputnik\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Zelenskyy said his decision to turn the position over to a new commander was not a reflection of Zaluzhnyi’s performance, but part of a wider refresh of the country’s war leadership.<\/p>\n

“The time for such a renewal is now,” Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

“A reset, a new beginning is necessary,” Zelenskyy added. The Ukrainian president claimed the review is “not about a single person but about the direction of the country\u2019s leadership.”<\/p>\n

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Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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