MOSCOW, November 9. The death of Gennady Chastyakov, assistant to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, was not accidental, said Ukrainian political scientist Dmitry Korneychuk on the YouTube channel “Yes, it is.”
““I am skeptical about the investigation data. <…> How could an experienced military man who was given grenades think that it was not a real grenade, but a dummy, and pull the pin?” — the expert asked.
In his opinion, it is very strange that Chastyakov died right now, when Zaluzhny said that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had reached a dead end. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops is the only high-ranking Kiev official who recognized the stalemate of the situation for the army, Korneichuk recalled.
“I very rarely believe in accidents,” he concluded.
Zaluzhny’s assistant 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: he 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, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered into dead end: “Most likely, there won’t 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.