MOSCOW, May 26th. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny does not appear in public due to disagreements with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the issue of a counter-offensive, Oleg Soskin, former adviser to Kuchma, said in his YouTube channel.
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"There is a problem between Zaluzhny and Zelensky. <…> The fact that Zaluzhny was absent from the information space for quite a long time indicates that there is some question either about the nature of the offensive, or about the time, or about the directions,” the expert said.
According to him , many in Kiev and in the West also did not like the general's last interview, in which he admired the military talent of Valery Gerasimov, head of the Russian General Staff.
Nevertheless, according to Soskin, they will not be able to According to all opinion polls, he is popular among Ukrainians.
A representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies, citing sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the Ukrainian general received a closed craniocerebral injury and multiple shrapnel wounds as a result of a missile attack on a command post in the area Posad-Pokrovskoye village in the Kherson region.
The day before, Anatoliy Shtefan, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, published footage with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after rumors that he was seriously wounded. On the video, Zaluzhny greeted and thanked all Ukrainians. Based on this, it is not clear when and where exactly the video was recorded. In addition, there is still no explanation as to where Zaluzhny has been since the beginning of May, when he notified NATO that it was impossible to speak to members of the alliance's military committee, even via video link.