Tag: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Zelensky’s wear and tear

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

Zelensky’s wear and tear (original)

For more than two and a half years, war has been the raison d’être of the Ukrainian state. The budget presented by Kyiv this week allocates more than 50% of the budget to the defence sector – to which must be added the cost of veterans – something that has been repeated since 2022. Maintaining the front, avoiding its collapse and ensuring that there is still enough support to continue fighting until the objectives are achieved is the priority of the government team, which has set aside practically all other obligations of the state, which today depends entirely on foreign subsidies that make it possible to pay salaries and pensions. One of the aspects that has completely disappeared under the cover of the unity demanded by the war is precisely domestic politics. The Russian invasion gave Zelensky’s team the opportunity to create for the president the image of a war leader, the representation of the nation, a savior capable of achieving what he sets out to do, the only person capable of rescuing the country from certain ruin.

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Zelensky Appoints Mykhailo Drapatyi as New Commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi appointed as new commander of Ukraine’s land forces

Mykhailo Drapatyi participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He began his combat career as the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade. Under his command, the units of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade entered Mariupol in May 2014 on armored vehicles to reinforce the units that repelled the terrorists’ assault.

In the position of the IFV commander, he and his mechanic-driver Dmytro Vorona led a convoy of four vehicles and broke through the barricade of pro-Russian residents. It was their “flying IFV” that was captured in the footage that went viral.

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2014: Victory Day in Mariupol