MOSCOW, January 5 The split between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny has become stronger due to the politician’s self-confidence, writes American journalist Simon Shuster in an article for Telegraph.
“
"Zelensky has become more confident. He determined his own military priorities, and they did not always coincide with Zaluzhny's priorities. “Soon the split intensified,” the material says.
Schuster also noted that back in 2022, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was considered by some Ukrainian officials as a possible political opponent of Zelensky, and Zaluzhny himself described his relationship with him as “an inconvenient partnership.”
“
“He doesn’t need to understand military affairs as well as medicine or building bridges,” the journalist quotes the Ukrainian general as saying about the president.
In At the end of October last year, Simon Schuster for Time published an article with comments from Vladimir Zelensky and representatives of his team, which states that the Ukrainian politician’s conviction in the supposed victory, even despite setbacks in military operations, is hindering his team’s attempts to come up with a new strategy and ideas .