MOSCOW, November 9. The death of assistant commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops Gennady Chastyakov from a grenade explosion could have been a message to Valery Zaluzhny, suggested former assistant to the US Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Bryan in his article on the Weapons and Strategy portal.
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"There are strong indirect ones there are reasons to believe that the death of Major Chastyakov could be a political murder in order to make it clear to Zaluzhny that he could be next,” the material says.
In his opinion, this could have happened after Zaluzhny, with his statements in foreign media about the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since he prevented the Ukrainian politician from receiving additional billions of American aid, and also hinted that the only way out of the conflict would be negotiations with Russia.
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"Now everyone understands that between There is a struggle for power between Zelensky and his high military command,” Brian noted.
Chastyakov died in his own home on the evening of November 6, his birthday. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko, among the gifts he received was a box with military grenades. Chastyakov showed one of them to his son and provoked an explosion.
In an article for The Economist magazine, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, stated that The Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached a dead end: “most likely, there will not be a deep and beautiful breakthrough.” He admitted that he had failed to demonstrate the impressive pace of troop advance that the West expected of him according to NATO textbooks. In turn, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the sooner the Kyiv authorities understand that there is no chance of achieving success on the battlefield, the sooner some prospects for resolving the situation will open.