Ukrainian generals should be in trenches - Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (photo: Getty Images)
The second point of Ukraine's resilience plan, which was presented to Ukrainians on Tuesday, November 19, calls for a change in the way the Armed Forces are managed. In particular, nowadays, generals should be in the trenches near their soldiers, states Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
During the III International Conference on Food Security Grain From Ukraine, the President said that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has a “main task” to reduce bureaucracy in the army.
“And this is very important. An officer must see a soldier. For me, a general who has not been in a trench is not a general, despite his experience. With all due respect, today the most difficult situation is on the front line, in the trench. Generals should be in the trenches. This is the war,” the president said.
Zelenskyy emphasized that the most important thing is the morale of the military. And if the soldiers want to switch to the “corps-brigade” system, then let it be so.
“And if, but this is up to the military to decide, if the transition to the corps-brigade system, which they propose today, is to reduce this distance from the general to the soldier, if this bureaucracy is reduced, let them do so,” the head of state summarized.
On Tuesday, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Ukraine's internal resilience plan. It consists of ten points.
Read more about it in RBC-Ukraine's article.
