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47th Brigade battalion commander’s resignation puts Ukraine’s military leadership under new scrutiny
Ukraine’s military has once again been rocked by a scandal around its leadership culture, with another high-profile commander speaking out against the country’s top brass over bad orders leading to excess losses.On May 16, well-renowned officer Oleksandr Shyrshyn, callsign “Genius,” announced his resignation from his position as battalion commander of Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade. "I’ve never received dumber orders than the ones in our curr…
Performing tasks in Kurshchina and the Ukrainian-Russian border, the commander of the battalion of the 47th separate mechanized brigade “Magura” Alexander Shirshin faced tasks that, by all indications, were doomed to failure and exposed personnel to high probability...
He wrote about it on Facebook.” Before coming out with a public message, I repeatedly made formal and informal appeals regarding the feasibility of completing tasks with proposals at various levels of our command. Almost all appeals were ignored,” the military stated.According to him, it was because of the lack of proper response that he wrote the post with the goal - it is necessary to change approaches in management and adequately assess their…
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