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Jenerali wa Kiukraine na kiongozi mzoefu, ambaye yuko kwenye mstari wa mbele wa mapigano. Amekili wazi katika mahojiano na chombo cha habari na kusema Urusi siyo mjinga, pia siyo mdhaifu. Kamfananisha na hogo pevu ambalo ukitaka kuling'oa sharti uwe muerevu. Sasa kazi kwao ambao wanamchukulia poa Urusi.
“Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
An interview with Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s second most senior soldier
Dec 15th 2022 | EASTERN UKRAINE
General oleskandr syrsky is late. He apologises when he eventually arrives, two hours behind schedule, at a location near his situation room in eastern Ukraine. War has a habit of surprising, he says: just when things appear fine, you are hit with a storm. Punching words out in a strained staccato, he appears exhausted by the stress of overseeing operations on Ukraine’s bloody eastern front. “The Russians aren’t idiots,” he says. “They aren’t weak. Anyone who underestimates [them] is headed for defeat.”
Described by colleagues as an ascetic, an obsessive planner with an addiction to the gym, even building one at his headquarters, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces has done much to tilt the war in his country’s favour. He was responsible for two critical victories: stopping what Russia considered to be the “world’s second army” at the gates of Kyiv in March; and then pushing it out of the Kharkiv region in September. Now he is the man charged with facing down a humiliated but regrouped Russian army that is throwing everything it has at the town of Bakhmut in Donbas.
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“Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
An interview with Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s second most senior soldier
Dec 15th 2022 | EASTERN UKRAINE
General oleskandr syrsky is late. He apologises when he eventually arrives, two hours behind schedule, at a location near his situation room in eastern Ukraine. War has a habit of surprising, he says: just when things appear fine, you are hit with a storm. Punching words out in a strained staccato, he appears exhausted by the stress of overseeing operations on Ukraine’s bloody eastern front. “The Russians aren’t idiots,” he says. “They aren’t weak. Anyone who underestimates [them] is headed for defeat.”
Described by colleagues as an ascetic, an obsessive planner with an addiction to the gym, even building one at his headquarters, the head of Ukraine’s ground forces has done much to tilt the war in his country’s favour. He was responsible for two critical victories: stopping what Russia considered to be the “world’s second army” at the gates of Kyiv in March; and then pushing it out of the Kharkiv region in September. Now he is the man charged with facing down a humiliated but regrouped Russian army that is throwing everything it has at the town of Bakhmut in Donbas.
“Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
An interview with Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s second most senior soldier
